Bennington College

Pop Culture

Bennington College has been home to many prolific authors, famous individuals and pop culture references. Famous faculty and alumni include Carol Channing, Jamaica Kincaid, Martha Graham, Helen Frankenthaler, Bernard Malamud, Bret Easton Ellis, Jonathan Lethem, Donna Tartt, Harvey Lichtenstein, Milford Graves, Andrea Dworkin, Peter Dinklage, Mary Oliver, Mary Early, Bruce Berman (Chairman and CEO of Village Roadshow Pictures; executive producer of The Matrix, Ocean's Eleven, Analyze This, Mystic River) Michael Pollen (of the New York Times), Justin Theroux, Ted Mooney, Chris Barron (Lead Singer of the Spin Doctors) and Chris Bowen of the Blue Man Group. W.H. Auden also taught there near the end of his life and lived in a campus building known now as "Shingle Cottage".

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Author - Pop culture - Carol Channing - Jamaica Kincaid - Martha Graham - Helen Frankenthaler - Bernard Malamud - Bret Easton Ellis - Jonathan Lethem - Donna Tartt - Milford Graves - Andrea Dworkin - Peter Dinklage - Mary Oliver - Mary Early - New York Times - Blue Man Group - W.H. Auden

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• Igby Goes Down - Claire Danes's character attends Bennington College
• The Cosby Show - character of Theo wanted to attend Bennington College
• The Simpsons - mention of the Mayor's daughter on the waitlist for Bennington College http://snpp.com/episodes/CABF01
• Cheers - the character of Diane Chambers attended Bennington College
• Franny and Zooey - In J.D. Salinger's short novel, Franny tells Lane, "The Bennington-Sarah Lawrence type looked like she'd spent the whole train ride in the John, sculpting or painting or something, or as though she had a leotard on under her dress."
• Strong Motion - In Jonathan Franzen's novel "Eileen went to Bennington College. It was the best school she'd gotten into and was the choice of Judd, her North Shore boyfriend. It was also the most expensive undergraduate institution in the country. She and Judd had broken up before they arrived for orientation."