July 1948 Buckey O'Neill William J. Brady Bat Masterson Law James Duane William J. Brennan, Jr. – Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Sandra Day O'Connor – Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Wayne M. Collins – civil rights attorney James B. Comey – former United States Deputy Attorney General Charles Patrick Daly – Chief Justice of the New York Court of Common Pleas Patrick Fitzgerald – United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois Anthony Kennedy – Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Robert F. Kennedy – United States Attorney General Roger I. McDonough – Chief Justice of the Utah Supreme Court Frank Murphy – Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Roger J. Traynor – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California James Sullivan (governor) George Wythe McCook James Clark McReynolds Charles Carroll (barrister) Literature Philip Barry – playwright; author of The Philadelphia Story L. Frank Baum – author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Ted Berrigan – poet, part of the second generation of the New York School; author of The Sonnets John Berryman – poet; one of the founders of the Confessional school of poetry Louise Bogan – poet, translator, and critic; served as Poet Laureate of the United States 1945–1946 T. Coraghessan Boyle – novelist and short story writer; awarded the 1988 PEN/Faulkner Award for his novel World's End Bill Bryson – travel writer; awarded an honorary OBE for his contribution to literature John Horne Burns – novelist and travel writer; author of The Gallery Jim Carroll – author, poet, and punk musician; author of The Basketball Diaries Neal Cassady – author and poet; provided the basis for the character Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road Raymond Chandler – novelist and short story writer; author of the Philip Marlowe detective series that shaped the modern "private eye" story Mary Coyle Chase – playwright and screenwriter; awarded the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Harvey Kate Chopin – novelist and short story writer; her novel The Awakening (1899) is considered a proto-feminist precursor to American modernism Tom Clancy – novelist; author of many bestselling novels, including The Hunt for Red October and Clear and Present Danger Mary Higgins Clark – bestselling author of suspense novels Billy Collins – poet; served two terms as Poet Laureate of