List of Hollins University people

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

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• 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
• Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, author of A Woman of Independent Means, 1960
• Cathryn Hankla, poet, 1980, M.A. 1982
• Tama Janowitz, author, M.A. 1979, commonly grouped with 1980s literary Brat Pack
• Beth Macy, author; Factory Man was a New York Times best seller and optioned by Playtone for an HBO miniseries, M.A. 1998
• 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, author of children's books, ALND 1887

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 female 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, 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

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