David L. Kirp , is James D. Marver professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, member of the Barack Obama Presidential Transition Team and author.
 His research has explored a wide range of social policy domains, including preschool, k-12 and higher education, race and gender equality, affordable housing, and the AIDS crisis.
 His work has attracted scholarly, policy activist, and popular audiences.
 He has written some sixteen books, as well as many articles that have appeared in leading policy-focused social science journals and law reviews.
 He is a regular contributor to the New York Times and other national publications His research has been translated into numerous foreign languages, including Chinese (traditional and simplified), Japanese and Ukrainian.
 Among his books are "Improbable Scholars: The Rebirth of a Great American School District and a Strategy for America's Schools" (winner of the AERA outstanding book award, 2014), "Kids First: Five Big Ideas for Transforming Children's Lives and America's Future", "Sandbox Investment: The Preschool Movement and Kids First Politics" and "Shakespeare, Einstein and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of American Higher Education".
He was born in New York, NY.
 In his early teens he became enamoured with Bluegrass music and publicized and promoted that genre in many ways.
 He was a DJ in New York, New Jersey, and Virginia; he wrote liner notes for around a hundred recordings.
 In 1994 and in 1998 he received the International Bluegrass Music Association's award for best liner notes, and that organization's certificate of merit in 1988.
 He compiled the country music chart for Billboard magazine.
 He MC'd at many a bluegrass performance or festival, including Bill Monroe's Bean Blossom Festival in Indiana, and festivals of Ralph Stanley and Carlton Haney.
 He served as editor for Muleskinner News and wrote many articles on early bluegrass performers for that and other publications, including Bluegrass Unlimited.
James Risen (born April 27, 1955) is an American journalist for "The New York Times" who previously worked for the "Los Angeles Times".
 He has written or co-written many articles concerning U.S. government activities and is the author or co-author of two books about the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and a book about the American public debate about abortion.
 Risen is a Pulitzer Prize winner.
Isaac Rosenfeld (March 10, 1918, Chicago - July 14, 1956, Chicago) was a Jewish-American writer who became a prominent member of New York intellectual circles.
 Rosenfeld wrote one novel ("Passage from Home", 1946), which, according to literary critic Marck Shechner, "helped fashion a uniquely American voice by marrying the incisiveness of Mark Twain to the Russian melancholy of Dostoevsky," and many articles for "The Nation", "Partisan Review", and "The New Republic".
 Some of those articles were posthumously published in a volume titled "An Age of Enormity", and his short stories were later published as "Alpha and Omega".
Oscar Pelham Edgar (17 March 1871 – 7 October 1948) was a Canadian teacher.
 He was a full professor and head of the Department of English at the Victoria College, Toronto from 1910 to 1938.
 He wrote many articles and several monographs on English literature.
 He had a talent for identifying and encouraging promising new authors.
 He was an active member of various literary societies, and was the force behind the establishment of the Canadian Writers’ Foundation to help needy authors.
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt (born 1934) is an American journalist, critic and novelist.
 He began as an editor for various New York City publishing houses, among them Holt, Rinehart and Winston and The Dial Press.
 In 1965, he moved to "The New York Times Book Review", where he became an editor.
 In 1969, he was appointed senior Daily Book Reviewer for "The New York Times", a position he held until 1995, when he became a regular daily book reviewer.
 From 1965 until 2000, he wrote more than 4,000 book reviews and articles, on subjects from trout fishing to Persian archaeology.
 In April 2000, he assumed the job of chief obituary writer for "The Times" and wrote advance obituaries and occasional daily obits until his retirement on June 30, 2006.
 Obituaries bearing his byline continued to run in "The New York Times" as of April 2014.
Larry Qualls is an American visual arts archival documentarian, editor and art critic whose library of images the "Larry Qualls Archive" (100,000 images documenting 30 years of New York City gallery exhibitions) was acquired by ARTSTOR.
 Qualls is a former associate editor of Performing Arts journal, an academic publication for which he also authored many articles over the course of several decades.
 He is a frequent presence on the New York City art scene and his appearances are often noted by among other sources the New York Social Diary.
 Qualls was also a contributor to the late art magazine Art on Paper.
Daniel Alpert is an American investment banker, think tank fellow and author.
 He is best known for his writing on the credit bubble and the ensuing financial crisis of the 2000s, and his many articles and papers on the U.S. housing market, banking, regulatory matters and global macroeconomics.
 Alpert has been widely quoted and published in print outlets, including the "Wall Street Journal", the "New York Times, "Reuters", the "Associated Press", "Bloomberg", "Forbes", and "Fortune".
 He is a frequent commentator on business news networks, including "Bloomberg", CNBC and Fox Business News.
Leslie Howard (born Leslie Howard Steiner, 3 April 18931 June 1943) was an English stage and film actor, director and producer.
 Howard also wrote many stories and articles for "The New York Times", "The New Yorker" and "Vanity Fair".
 Howard was one of the biggest box-office draws and movie idols of the 1930s but is probably best remembered for playing Ashley Wilkes in "Gone with the Wind" (1939).
 Howard had movie roles in many other notable films, including: "Berkeley Square" (1933), "Of Human Bondage" (1934), "The Scarlet Pimpernel" (1934), "The Petrified Forest" (1936), "Pygmalion" (1938), "Intermezzo" (1939), ""Pimpernel" Smith" (1941) and "The First of the Few" (1942), receiving two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
The Lady Is Willing is a 1934 British film directed by Gilbert Miller, based on a comedy by French playwright Louis Verneuil.
 The cast includes Leslie Howard, Cedric Hardwicke, and Binnie Barnes.

Question: What person who wrote many articles for  "The New York Times" starred in The Lady Is Willing?
Answer: Leslie Howard