Published Jan. 21, 2016
Ethan Coen ’79 (philosophy), playwright and one-half of the Coen brothers filmmaking team: “Two Views of Wittgenstein’s Later Philosophy”
Robert Caro ’57 (English), journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author: “Heading Out: A Study of the Development of Ernest Hemingway’s Thought”
David Remnick ’81 (comparative literature), New Yorker editor and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer:“The Sympathetic Thread: Leaves of Grass 1855–1865”
Frank Stella ’58 (history), abstract painter, printmaker, and sculptor: “Art in Western Christendom”
Meg Whitman ’77 (economics), president and CEO of Hewlett-Packard: “The Marketing of American Consumer Products in Western Europe”
Lisa Belkin ’82 (politics), author, former New York Times reporter, now senior columnist writing about work and family for The Huffington Post: “See How She Runs: Television Advertising and Women Candidates”
Ted Cruz ’92 (WWS), Republican U.S. senator from Texas: “Clipping the Wings of Angels: The History and Theory behind the Ninth and Tenth Amendments of the United States Constitution”
Jodi Picoult ’87 (English), best-selling novelist: “Developments” (a novel)
Alan Blinder ’67 (economics), Princeton professor, served on President Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers: “The Theory of Corporate Choice”
Lisa Halaby ’73 (architecture), Queen Noor of Jordan; president of the United World Colleges movement: “96th Street and Second Avenue”
José Ferrer ’33 (modern languages), actor, theater, and film director: “French Naturalism and Lardo Bazan”
Charles Gibson ’65 (history), former broadcast television anchor and journalist: “The Land and Capital Problems of Pre-Famine Ireland”
Charles “Pete” Conrad ’53 (aeronautical engineering), U.S. Navy officer and third man to walk on the moon as part of the Apollo 12 mission: “The Design of a Turbo-Jet Military Advanced Trainer”
Laurance Rockefeller ’32 (philosophy), venture capitalist, financier, and philanthropist: “The Concept of Value and Its Relation to Ethics”
Elena Kagan ’81 (history), associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court: “To the Final Conflict: Socialism in New York City, 1900–1933”
Christopher Eisgruber ’83 (physics), Princeton University provost, president-elect, and legal scholar: “The Global Implications of Local Violations of the Energy Conditions”
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