Alma Maters of Authors
Here are the places authors developed their writing chops (or just found the crazy things to write about).
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- Alice Sebold:
Syracuse University
(Syracuse, NY)
- Alice Walker:
Spelman College
(Atlanta, GA)
- Allen Ginsberg:
Columbia University
(New York, NY)
- Amy Tan:
San Jose State University
(San Jose, CA)
- Anne Rice:
University of North Texas
(Denton, TX)
- Anne Tyler:
Duke University
(Durham, NC)
- Belva Plain:
Barnard College
(New York, NY)
- Beverly Cleary:
University of California -- Berkeley
(Berkeley, CA)
- Chaim Potok:
Yeshiva University
(New York, NY)
- Charlaine Harris:
Rhodes College
(Memphis, TN)
- Cormac McCarthy:
University of Tennessee
(Knoxville, TN)
- Dan Brown:
Amherst College
(Amherst, MA)
- Danielle Steel:
New York University
(New York, NY)
- Dave Barry:
Haverford College
(Haverford, PA)
- Dean Koontz:
Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
(Shippensburg, PA)
- E. B. White:
Cornell University
(Ithaca, NY)
- Elia Kazan:
Williams College
(Williamstown, MA)
- Elizabeth Spencer:
Belhaven College
(Jackson, MS)
- Elmore Leonard:
University of Detroit Mercy
(Detroit, MI)
- Emma McLaughlin:
New York University
(New York, NY)
- Erica Jong:
Barnard College
(New York, NY)
- Erich Segal:
Harvard University
(Cambridge, MA)
- Eudora Welty:
Mississippi University for Women
(Columbus, MS)
- Evan Wright:
Vassar College
(Poughkeepsie, NY)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald:
Princeton University
(Princeton, NJ)
- Faye Kellerman:
University of California -- Los Angeles
(Los Angeles, CA)
- Flannery O'Connor:
Georgia College and State University
(Milledgeville, GA)
- Garrison Keillor:
University of Minnesota--Twin Cities
(Minneapolis, MN)
- George Plimpton:
Harvard University
(Cambridge, MA)
- Gertrude Stein (Radcliffe College):
Harvard University
(Cambridge, MA)
- Harper Lee:
Huntingdon College
(Montgomery, AL)
- Heloise:
Texas State University -- San Marcos
(San Marcos, TX)
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
Bowdoin College
(Brunswick, ME)
- Herman Wouk:
Columbia University
(New York, NY)
- Irving Stone:
University of California -- Berkeley
(Berkeley, CA)
- Isaac Asimov:
Columbia University
(New York, NY)
- Jack London:
University of California -- Berkeley
(Berkeley, CA)
- James A. Michener:
Swarthmore College
(Swarthmore, PA)
- James Patterson:
Manhattan College
(Riverdale, NY)
- Janet Evanovich:
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey -- New
(Piscataway, NJ)
- Jodi Picoult:
Princeton University
(Princeton, NJ)
- John Ball:
Carroll University
(Waukesha, WI)
- John Grisham:
Mississippi State University
(Mississippi State, MS)
- John Irving:
University of Iowa
(Iowa City, IA)
- John Updike:
Harvard University
(Cambridge, MA)
- Jonathan Franzen:
Swarthmore College
(Swarthmore, PA)
- Jonathan Kellerman:
University of California -- Los Angeles
(Los Angeles, CA)
- Joseph Heller:
Columbia University
(New York, NY)
- Judith Guest:
University of Michigan -- Ann Arbor
(Ann Arbor, MI)
- Judith Krantz:
Wellesley College
(Wellesley, MA)
- Judy Blume:
New York University
(New York, NY)
- Ken Kesey:
University of Oregon
(Eugene, OR)
- Kurt Vonnegut:
Cornell University
(Ithaca, NY)
- Mario Puzo:
CUNY -- City College
(New York, NY)
- Martin Cruz Smith:
University of Pennsylvania
(Philadelphia, PA)
- Michael Crichton:
Harvard University
(Cambridge, MA)
- Mitch Albom:
Brandeis University
(Waltham, MA)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne:
Bowdoin College
(Brunswick, ME)
- Nicholas Sparks:
University of Notre Dame
(Notre Dame, IN)
- Nicola Kraus:
New York University
(New York, NY)
- Norman Lear:
Emerson College
(Boston, MA)
- Norman Mailer:
Harvard University
(Cambridge, MA)
- Patricia Cornwell:
Davidson College
(Davidson, NC)
- Patricia Highsmith:
Barnard College
(New York, NY)
- Peter Benchley:
Harvard University
(Cambridge, MA)
- Philip Roth:
Bucknell University
(Lewisburg, PA)
- Ralph Ellison:
Tuskegee University
(Tuskegee, AL)
- Rich Cohen:
Tulane University
(New Orleans, LA)
- Richard Bach:
California State University -- Long Beach
(Long Beach, CA)
- Richard Matheson:
University of Missouri--Columbia
(Columbia, MO)
- Richard Russo:
University of Arizona
(Tucson, AZ)
- Robert Ludlum:
Wesleyan University
(Middletown, CT)
- Robert Penn Warren:
Yale University
(New Haven, CT)
- Saul Bellow:
Northwestern University
(Evanston, IL)
- Scott Turow:
Amherst College
(Amherst, MA)
- Sidney Sheldon:
Northwestern University
(Evanston, IL)
- Stephen King:
University of Maine
(Orono, ME)
- Stephen R. Donaldson:
College of Wooster
(Wooster, OH)
- Stephenie Meyer:
Brigham Young University -- Provo
(Provo, UT)
- Sue Grafton:
University of Louisville
(Louisville, KY)
- Susan Sontag:
University of Chicago
(Chicago, IL)
- Terry McMillan:
University of California -- Berkeley
(Berkeley, CA)
- Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss):
Dartmouth College
(Hanover, NH)
- Thomas Pynchon:
Cornell University
(Ithaca, NY)
- Thorton Wilder:
Yale University
(New Haven, CT)
- Tom Clancy:
Loyola College in Maryland
(Baltimore, MD)
- Tom Robbins:
Washington and Lee University
(Lexington, VA)
- Tom Wolfe:
Washington and Lee University
(Lexington, VA)
- Toni Morrison:
Howard University
(Washington, DC)
- Upton Sinclair:
CUNY -- City College
(New York, NY)
- Wally Lamb:
University of Connecticut
(Storrs, CT)
- William S. Burroughs:
Harvard University
(Cambridge, MA)
- Winston Groom:
University of Alabama
(Tuscaloosa, AL)
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