LeBlanc, 1980, actor Shannon Lee, daughter of martial arts legend Bruce Lee Elyse Luray, NC ’89, star of PBS' History Detectives Olga Merediz, NC '78, actress Linda Taylor Miller, 1976, actress Enrique Murciano, TC ’95, actor, TV's Without a Trace Ed Nelson, A&S ’53, UC ’00, actor, Peyton Place Bruce Paltrow, 1965, television and film producer Meryl Poster, Academy Award-winning and Emmy-nominated producer Michael Price, Emmy award-winning writer and producer best known for his work on The Simpsons Al Shea, actor and theatre critic Jerry Springer, B.A., 1965, talk show host and former mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio Harold Sylvester, actor, director Ian Terry, winner of the fourteenth season of Big Brother Ronald A. Weinberg, American-born Canadian children's television producer (Cinar) Literature and poetry John Gregory Brown, novelist, 1982 Amy Carter, G ’96, children's book author; daughter of former President Jimmy Carter Rich Cohen, writer, 1990 Nicole Cooley, poet; Walt Whitman Award recipient Peter Cooley, poet Alcée Fortier, folklorist and recorder of the story of Br'er Rabbit Whitney Gaskell, Law 1997, novelist Shirley Ann Grau, 1950, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Grotz, poet N. K. Jemisin, science fiction and fantasy writer, three time Hugo Award recipient Harnett Kane, Class of 1931, author of southern history, geography, culture, and fiction John Reed, author, Snowball's Chance John Kennedy Toole, BA 1958, author, Pulitzer Prize winner for A Confederacy of Dunces Dede Wilson, poet and author Music Les Crane, pioneer in interactive broadcasting, co-creator of pop music "Top 40" Paul Crawford, jazz musician, music historian, and music arranger who served as associate curator of the Hogan Jazz Archive Odaline de la Martinez, composer and conductor; first woman to conduct in a BBC Proms concert John Doheny, jazz saxophonist, band-leader, and historian Scott Greenstein, A&S ’81, president of Sirius XM Radio Zachary Richard, A&S ’72, Cajun singer/songwriter and poet Emily Saliers (attended), singer Sonia Tetlow, bass player in rock band Cowboy Mouth Janice Torre, lyricist of the song "Paper Roses" Michael White, jazz historian and musician Non-fiction writing and journalism Andrew Breitbart, '91, publisher and author Hodding Carter, journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner Bessie Alexander Ficklen (1861–1945), writer, poet, artist Robert Lane Greene, magazine journalist Ira B. Harkey Jr., Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nate Lee, B.A. 1978, writer, senior editor for Chicago's Newcity Bill Monroe, A&S ’42, broadcast journalist, former host of Meet The Press Mike Sacks, editor, writer, 1990 Thomas Sancton, editor, writer, civil rights journalist, teacher,