Horace Mann School

Famous Graduates

Famous graduates of Horace Mann include:

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• Eliot Spitzer, New York State Attorney General
• James Murdoch, son of News Corporation Owner Rupert Murdoch
• Allard K. Lowenstein, Congressman
• James Schlesinger, former Secretary of Defense
• Peter Cincotti, pianist-singer-songwriter
• William Carlos Williams, class of 1903 - poet
• Paul Francis Webster, Academy-Award-winning and Grammy-Award-winning songwriter
• Peter Vierick, class of 1933 - author
• E. J. Kahn, class of 1933 - author
• Andrew Tobias, class of 1964 - author and Democratic National Committee fundraiser
• Robert Caro, class of 1953 - author
• Anthony Lewis, class of 1944 - journalist
• Barry Scheck, class of 1967 - attorney
• Martin Duberman, class of 1948 - author and gay rights historian
• Robert L. Heilbroner, class of 1936 - author and economist
• August Kleinzahler, poet
• Jane Mendelsohn, class of 1983 - author
• Gideon Rose, class of 1981 - Managing Editor of Foreign Affairs magazine
• Peter L. Bernstein, class of 1936 - economist and editor
• Ted Sperling, class of 1979 - Broadway orchestrator
• Ari Hest, class of 1997 - singer and songwriter

Writer Jack Kerouac also attended Horace Mann for one year of high school as part of the class of 1940 and played on the football team.

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