M dwarf stars Beverly R. Wellford, Grad 1816 – sixth President of the American Medical Association Thomas W. Whitaker, MS 1929, PhD 1931 – botanist and horticulturist Ralph Elmer Wilson, Grad 1910 – astronomer; Wilson crater on the Moon was co-named after him Carl A. Wirtanen, Grad 1939 – astronomer; discovered a number of asteroids and comets William Wulf, Grad 1966 – designer of BLISS programming language, President of the National Academy of Engineering Hugh H. Young, Col 1889, Med 1891 – inventor, author, pioneering surgeon Writers and academics Louis Auchincloss, Law 1941 – novelist, lawyer David Baldacci, Law 1986 – novelist Donald J. Boudreaux, Law 1992 – economist, professor Paul Bowles (attended) – novelist, travel writer, composer Charles Augustus Briggs, Col 1860 – Hebrew scholar and theologian Erskine Caldwell, attended 1923–1926 – novelist, author of Tobacco Road John T. Casteen III, Col 1965, Grad 1970 – President of the University of Virginia John R. Conniff, New Orleans and Baton Rouge educator; president of Louisiana Tech University, 1926–1928; attended University of Louisiana c. 1895 Philip F. Deaver, Grad 1978, writer and poet Heather Derr-Smith, Col 1995 – poet Tyler Drumheller, Col 1974 – pre-Iraq war European CIA station chief; author of On the Brink Claudia Emerson, Col 1979 – 2006 Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry Linda Fairstein, Law 1972 – prosecutor of sex crimes in Manhattan and best-selling author of crime novels Jerry Falwell Jr., Law 1987 – Chancellor and President, Liberty University Richard Foerster, A&S 1972 – poet Joanne B. Freeman – historian William Fuller, Ph.D. 1983, poet; senior vice president and chief fiduciary officer of Northern Trust Corporation Elizabeth Garrett, Law 1988 – President of Cornell University; former provost of the University of Southern California Emily Giffin, Law 1997 – chick lit author Julien Green, Col 1922 – a major figure of French literature of the 20th century Roger Harold Hull, Law 1974 – President of Beloit College and Union College Thomas M. Humphrey – economist Edward P. Jones, Grad 1981 – author, winner of 2004 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, MacArthur Fellow Jack Temple Kirby – historian of the Southern United States, awarded the Bancroft Prize for his 2006 book Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South Gloria Cordes Larson, Law 1976 – President of Bentley University Helen Matthews Lewis, Master's of Sociology 1949 – sociologist, historian, and activist Edgar Odell Lovett, Grad 1895 – mathematician, astronomer, first