Stephen Dobyns, poet E.L. Doctorow, writer Mark Doty, poet and former Poet Laureate of the United States Cornelius Eady, poet Dana Gioia, poet Maria Goeppert-Mayer, Nobel Prize-winner in physics and one of only a few female winners of the prize Irving Goldman, anthropologist Paul Goodman, writer, anarchist, Gestalt Therapy contributor Martha Graham, dancer and choreographer Allan Gurganus, writer Kimiko Hahn, poet Randall Jarrell, poet and writer Mary Karr, poet and writer Randall Kenan, writer Galway Kinnell, poet Jane Kramer, Emmy Award-winning journalist Wilford Leach, Tony Award-winning director and screenwriter Max Lerner, journalist Tao Lin, writer Paul Lisicky, poet Helen Lynd, sociologist Valerie Martin, writer David Maslanka, composer Mary McCarthy, writer Donald McKayle, dancer and choreographer Grace Paley, poet, fiction writer, and political activist who in 2004 was awarded an honorary doctorate from Sarah Lawrence College Gilberto Perez, author, film historian Santha Rama Rau, writer Franklin Delano Roosevelt, III, economist Theodore Roszak, sculptor Muriel Rukeyser, poet and political activist who, while teaching at Sarah Lawrence, helped student Alice Walker publish her first works J.D. Salinger, writer Bessie Schonberg, dancer, choreographer and dance teacher, after whom the Bessie Awards were named. William Schuman, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer; former director of the Juilliard School; taught at Sarah Lawrence 1935-45 Alan Shulman, composer and cellist David Smith, sculptor Susan Sontag, leftist intellectual, essayist, novelist, and activist Brooke Stevens, novelist Jean Valentine, National Book Award-winning poet Caroline F. Ware, New Deal activist Marguerite Yourcenar, writer References Sarah Lawrence College People