Journalists & Writers
- Gilbert Byron, Class of 1923, author, best known as the “Chesapeake Thoreau” or “Voice of the Chesapeake” for such regionally-flavored works as The Lord’s Oysters and Done Crabbin’.
- James M. Cain, Class of 1910, journalist, screenwriter and novelist, best known for three novels: The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, and Mildred Pierce—which firmly established the film noir genre.
- John Dimsdale, Class of 1973, Reporter for NPR's Marketplace.
- Chris Ely, Class of 1970, Former sports broadcaster for the WJZ and WBAL television stations in Baltimore, MD.
- Michael Ludden, Class of 1973, journalist and editor, led The Orlando Sentinel to a Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for an investigation of racial profiling and the abuse of no-arrest seizures laws by the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office.
- Theodore Simonson, Class of 1949, scriptwriter of the 1958 sci-fi horror classic, The Blob.
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Famous quotes containing the words journalists and/or writers:
“I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.”
—Marguerite Duras (b. 1914)
“It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)