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Notable Alumni Horace Mann • Samuel Gridley Howe • Richard Fleischer • Charles Evans Hughes • Marilynne Robinson • Taryn Simon • Ken Starr • Ira Glass • Laura Linney • Edwidge Danticat • Jim Yong Kim • Todd Haynes • Janet Yellen • Cecile Richards • Rudolph Fisher • Maggie Hassan • John Davis Pierce • Fritz Pollard • John Bates Clark • Nicanor Parra • Thomas J. Watson, Jr. • John Hope • Abby Lillian Marlatt • Lillian Evelyn Gilbreth • Mary Emma Woolley • Richard Kostelanetz • John F. Kennedy, Jr. • Emma Watson • Stephen L. Buchwald • Lois Lowry • Kevin Young • Ottessa Moshfegh • John Krasinski • Douglas Diamond • André Leon Talley • Guido Imbens • Ted Chiang • Jeffrey Eugenides • Jessica Meir • Wendy Carlos
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