page_title: List of Washington University alumni
section_title: Arts and literature
hierarchical_section_title: List of Washington University alumni / Arts and literature
caption_attribution_description: Cropped picture taken by Patrick McBryde after Peter Sarsgaard's appearance at Washington University in St. Louis, Winter 2007
context_page_description: The following persons are notable alumni, living and deceased, of Washington University in St. Louis.
context_section_description: Ericka Beckman (BFA 1974): filmmaker
  Gustave Haenschen: pianist, composer, recording director (Brunswick Records), orchestral conductor and radio executive.
  Deanne Bell (BS 2002): host of Discovery Channel's Smash Lab and PBS's Design Squad
  Morris Carnovsky (AB): stage and film actor
  Douglass Crockwell (BS 1926): commercial artist and experimental filmmaker
  Larry Cuba (AB 1972): animator
  Robert Culp (attended): television actor
  Patricia Degener: artist
  Kyle DeWoody (BA 2007): gallery owner
  Anita Diamant (AB 1973): novelist
  Doug Dillard: bluegrass musician, banjo player for the Dillards
  Sean Douglas (LA 2005): multi-platinum songwriter and producer
  Richard Eastham (studied prior to World War II): actor
  George Pearse Ennis: painter and watercolorist
  Lillie Rose Ernst: the leader of The Potters, an artistic group in early 20th Century St. Louis
  Jon Feltheimer (AB 1972): CEO of Lionsgate Films
  Tom Friedman (BFA 1988): conceptual sculptor
  Bernard Fuchs (MFA 1954): painter and illustrator
  John Gardner (AB 1955): novelist
  Dave Garroway (AB 1936): Today Show host
  Cheryl Goldsleger (MFA 1975): artist
  Alicia Graf Mack (MA): dancer
  Elizabeth Graver (MFA 1999): novelist
  Robert Guillaume: stage and television actor
  Garth Risk Hallberg (MFA 2001): novelist
  Henry Hampton (AB 1961): filmmaker; producer of PBS documentary Eyes on the Prize
  John Hartford: bluegrass fiddler and banjo player
  Veronica Helfensteller: painter and printer
  Ann Hirsch (BFA 2007): artist
  A. E. Hotchner (AB 1940, JD 1940): biographer and novelist (Papa Hemingway, King of the Hill)
  Leann Hunley: film and television actress
  Fannie Hurst (AB 1909): writer and social activist
  Roland C. Jordan composer And music theorist
  Josephine Winslow Johnson (student 1926–1931): Pulitzer Prize-winning author
  Stan Kann (AB 1946): theater organist
  Johnny Kastl (AB, 1997): television actor (Scrubs)
  Hank Klibanoff (AB 1971): author and Pulitzer Prize winner
  Caryn Mandabach (AB 1970): Emmy award-winning television and film producer of the Cosby Show
  Edward Shepherd Mead (AB 1936): playwright (How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying)
  David Merrick (AB 1934): Broadway producer
  Ian Monroe (BFA 1995): visual artist
  Oliver Nelson (student 1954–1957): jazz musician and composer
  David McCheyne Newell: naturalist, writer
  Frank Nuderscher: American Impressionist painter and muralist
  Al Parker (student 1923-28): illustrator
  J. D. Parran (AM 1971): jazz musician
  Ebony Patterson (MFA 2006): visual artist
  Francis J. Peschka (MFA 1941): puppeteer
  Mike Peters (BFA 1965): cartoonist, creator of Mother Goose and Grimm
  Judy Pfaff (BFA 1971): visual artist
  Dan Piraro (dropped out): cartoonist of Bizarro
  Robert Quine (JD 1968): rock guitarist
  Harold Ramis (AB 1966): film actor, writer and director
  Eugene B. Redmond (MA 1966): poet, critic, civil-rights activist
  Irma S. Rombauer (AB): co-author of The Joy of Cooking
  Allen Rucker: television writer and novelist
  Peter Sarsgaard (AB 1993): actor
  Steven Sater: Broadway lyricist, playwright, and poet
  Peter Saul (BFA 1956): painter
  Michael Shamberg: video artist, producer
  William Jay Smith (AB 1939; MA 1941): poet, translator, literary critic and children's author
  Dan Storper (AB ’73): founder and CEO of Putumayo World Music
  Allan Trautman (AB 1976): actor, puppeteer
  Jeff Tremaine (AB 1990): director, producer, and co-creator of MTV's Jackass
  Kristin Bauer van Straten: television actress on True Blood
  Anne Valente (AB 2003): novelist, short story writer
  Andrew Volpe: lead singer and rhythm guitarist for rock band Ludo
  Lauren Weinstein (AB 1998): cartoonist
  Luke Whisnant (MFA 1982): novelist, short story writer
  Mary Wickes (AB 1930): stage, film, and television actress
  Tennessee Williams (student 1936-37): playwright
  Olly Wilson (AB 1959): composer
  Eva Dave : Gujarati language writer
caption: Actor Peter Sarsgaard
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