– Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Roger I. McDonough – Chief Justice of the Utah Supreme Court Dorothy Miner – chief counsel for the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission Roger J. Traynor – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California Literature Philip Barry – playwright; author of The Philadelphia Story Ted Berrigan – poet, part of the second generation of the New York School; author of The Sonnets John Berryman – poet; a founder of the confessional school of poetry Louise Bogan – poet, translator, and critic; Poet Laureate of the United States 1945–1946 T. Coraghessan Boyle – novelist and short story writer; awarded the 1988 PEN/Faulkner Award for novel World's End Bill Bryson – travel writer; awarded an honorary OBE for his contribution to literature William F. Buckley, Jr. (1925–2008) 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; 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; The Awakening (1899) is considered a proto-feminist precursor to American modernism Tom Clancy – 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; twice Poet Laureate of the United States, 2001–2003 Joe Connelly – novelist; author of Bringing Out the Dead Michael Connelly – crime novelist; author of the bestselling Harry Bosch detective series Pat Conroy – novelist and memoirist; author of The Great Santini and The Prince of Tides Robert Creeley – poet and author associated with the Black Mountain poets; awarded a 2000 American Book Award Lifetime Achievement Award Maureen Daly – novelist and short story writer; Seventeenth Summer (1942) is considered the first young adult novel J.P. Donleavy – novelist; author of The Ginger Man, named on the Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Novels Kirby Doyle – poet and novelist; associated with the New American Poetry movement and "third generation" American modernist poets Alan Dugan – poet;