List of Hollins University people

The following is a list of individuals associated with Hollins University through attending as a student, or serving as a member of the faculty or staff.

Notable alumni

Activism

• Ellen Malcolm, Founder of EMILY's List, 1969 ^[1]

Arts

• Nancy Bryan Faircloth, philanthropist and arts patron, chairwoman of the North Carolina Symphony Guild
• Haruki Fujimoto, dancer, choreographer, Broadway performer, and teacher at Hollins for 20 years.
• Gaspard Louis, dancer, choreographer
• Sally Mann, photographer and writer, shortlisted for 2015 National Book Award, 1974, M.A. 1975 ^[1]
• Katy Pyle, dancer and choreographer, artistic director of Ballez, B.A. 2002
• Jane Stuart Smith, operatic soprano, hymnologist, and author ^[2]

Authors

Source: ^[3]

• Madison Smartt Bell, author of Ten Indians, M.A. 1981
• Jenny Boully, author of five books, professor of creative writing and literature at Bennington College, 1998, M.A. 1999
• Margaret Wise Brown, author of Goodnight Moon, 1932
• Amanda Cockrell, children's book author, 1969, M.A. 1988
• Kiran Desai, author and recipient of the Man Booker Prize in 2006, M.A. 1994 ^[1]
• Tony D'Souza, author of Whiteman, M.A. 1998
• Cathryn Hankla, American poet, 1980, M.A. 1982
• Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, author of A Woman Of Independent Means, 1960
• Tama Janowitz, American author, M.A. 1979, commonly grouped with 1980s Brat Pack (literary)
• Jill McCorkle, author, 1981
• Kevin Prufer, poet, novelist, essayist, editor, M.A. 1994. 2024 Rilke Prize for American poetry.
• Candice F. Ransom, author of children's books
• Ethel Morgan Smith, author of From Whence Cometh My Help: The African American Community at Hollins College, 1999
• Lee Smith, author and winner of many awards including the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and two O. Henry Awards, 1967 ^[1]
• Edna Henry Lee Turpin, American author of children's books, ALND 1887
• Beth Macy, author, whose book Factory Man was a New York Times best seller and optioned by Playtone for an HBO mini series, M.A. 1998

Government and Public Service

• Jennifer Boysko, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1989
• Betsy B. Carr, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1968 ^[1]
• Pamela Jo Howell Slutz, career diplomat and former U.S. Ambassador to Burundi and Mongolia, 1970

Higher Education

• Linda Koch Lorimer, president, Randolph-Macon Woman’s College; vice president for global and strategic initiatives, Yale University, 1974

Journalism

• Ann Compton, ABC News White House correspondent, 1969
• Mary Garber, first woman sportswriter in the Atlantic Coast Conference, 1938
• Ruth Hale, journalist, feminist, and founder of the Lucy Stone League

Law

• Callie V. Granade, district judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama, 1972

Media and entertainment

• Jennifer Berman, sexual health expert, urologist, and female sexual medicine specialist
• George Butler, documentary filmmaker and writer, M.A. 1968
• Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, owner and CEO of the Gotham Group, dubbed one of Hollywood's Most Powerful Women, 1984
• Donna Richardson, fitness and aerobics instructor, author and television sports commentator, ALND 1984
• Eleanor D. Wilson, actress and Tony Award nominee, 1930

Pulitzer Prize Winners

• Mary Wells Ashworth, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, 1924
• Annie Dillard, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, 1967, M.A. 1968 ^[1]
• Henry S. Taylor, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet, M.A. 1966
• Natasha Trethewey, American poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2007, United States Poet Laureate, M.A. 1991 ^[1]

Science and Medicine

• Jennifer Berman, pioneer in the field of female urology and female sexual medicine, 1986
• Mary E. Hatten, Frederick P. Rose Professor and head of Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology, Rockefeller University, 1971

Sports

• Carol Semple Thompson, amateur golf champion, elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame, 1970 ^[1]
• Charlotte Fox, first woman to have climbed three of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks, 1979

References

1. "Women Who Are Going Places" (PDF). Hollins University. Retrieved October 19, 2015.
2. Amy Friedenberger (January 18, 2016). "Jane Stuart Smith traded opera career for God's work: The Roanoke native found a new purpose in life at the height of her singing career". The Roanoke Times .
3. "Authors Archive"