Alumni Profiles


Dialogue, not Debate

American University’s Lara Schwartz, J.D. ’98, teaches productive disagreement.

by Max J. Krupnick

Vacationing with a Purpose

New England “summer camps” for adults

by Nell Porter Brown

Leading with Care

Michael Hill strikes the right balance.

by Max J. Krupnick

A Dogged Observer

Novelist and psychiatrist Daniel Mason takes the long view.

by Max J. Krupnick

Diagnosis by Fiction

The “Healing Quartet,” by “Samuel Shem,” probes medicine—and life.

by Craig Lambert

Making Space

The natural history of Junko Yamamoto’s art and architecture

by Nina Pasquini

Winthrop Bell

Brief life of a philosopher and spy: 1884-1965

by Jason Bell

Greg Stone, An Emerging Novelist at 70

Late-life inspiration leads to pulpy noir novel

by Lydialyle Gibson

Living the Science Fiction Fantasy

Novelist Catherine Asaro’s space operas

by Lydialyle Gibson

Behind the Scenes

The quirky surrealism of production designer Sue Chan

by Stuart Miller