Creative Writing

These Five Princeton Friends Found Community in Creative Writing

By the end of 2025, all five writers became published novelists

Poet Gordon Walmsley ’71 Found His Voice in Denmark

Alfred D’Alessandro ’76 Recommends Humor

D’Alessandro’s unapologetically “un-Ivy” memoir is The B-Side of Paradise

Jacob Sager Weinstein ’94 Is Never Not Writing

Philanthropy, to the Rescue

Having donated more than $19 billion since 2019, MacKenzie Scott ’92 is setting a new model for philanthropy, not just in the scope, but also in the way she gives

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Following John McPhee ’53 to Alaska

Ben Weissenbach ’20’s new book is North to the Future: An Offline Adventure through the Changing Wilds of Alaska

New Book Chronicles the Career of Prolific Writer and Professor John McPhee ’53

Looking for a Story offers the first comprehensive inventory of the Princeton professor’s writings, beginning with his high school and college works

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How Edmund White Entered My Life at the Right Time, Several Times

Before he met White, Benjamin Bernard *22 knew him as the writer and Princeton professor who ‘brought gay experience out of the closet and into literature’

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On Shakespeare, Jodi Picoult ’87 Just Doesn’t Buy It

‘When I started to learn more about Emilia Bassano, I couldn’t believe how seamlessly her life plugged in all of the question marks and gaps that exist in Shakespeare’s’

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