Frank J. Fabozzi Eugene Fama - University of Chicago professor of finance and winner of the 2013 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics A. Bartlett Giamatti (1938–1989) - President of Yale University, later Major League Baseball commissioner; Italian father Robert Gallucci - Dean of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University Lino Graglia - University of Texas in Austin Paul J. Lioy - University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Robert Magliola - academic specialist in hermeneutics, philosophy, and religious studies Mariana Mazzucato Silvio Micali - professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, distinguished for his work on cryptography Fulvio Melia - professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Arizona in Tucson Franco Modigliani - MIT economics professor and winner of the 1985 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics L. Jay Oliva - former President of New York University (NYU) and author of many books on European and Russian history Camille Paglia - professor of humanities at the University of the Arts Michael Parenti - political scientist, Marxist activist P. M. Pasinetti - professor of comparative literature and Italian at UCLA Walter Piston - professor of music at Harvard University 1926–1960; Pulitzer Prize winner 1948 and 1961 Sports Writers Kim Addonizio - poet and novelist Maria Arena Bell - novelist, television and freelance writer Paul Attanasio - screenwriter Ken Auletta - writer/journalist and media critic for The New Yorker David Baldacci (born 1960) - best-selling novelist; a distant cousin of John Baldacci, former governor of Maine Andrew Berardini - art critic and fiction writer Greg Berlanti - television writer and producer Giannina Braschi - poet and novelist Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) - author and motivational speaker Christopher Castellani - novelist Nick Cafardo (1956–2019) - sportswriter Duane Capizzi - screenwriter Lorenzo Carcaterra - novelist and screenwriter Christopher Carosa - (born 1960) author, journalist, and investment adviser John Ciardi - poet and etymologist Diablo Cody - screenwriter, producer, author, journalist, memoirist, stripper and exotic dancer Bob Colacello - writer Angelo F. Coniglio - civil engineer, genealogist and author Gregory Corso - poet Wendy Corsi Staub - novelist John Corvino - philosopher Lorenzo Da Ponte - poet, writer, librettist William L. DeAndrea - mystery writer Keith R. A. DeCandido Don DeLillo (born 1936) - author Guy Anthony De Marco - author Tomie dePaola - author Louise DeSalvo - writer, editor, professor,