Sarah Lawrence College

Founded in 1927, Sarah Lawrence College is a co-educational, four-year liberal arts college in the Lawrence Park section of Yonkers, New York, though it is located in the postal zone of Bronxville, New York, about thirty minutes north of New York City. It has a student population of 1,200 and is renowned for its strong writing and performance art departments and its rigorous, individualized approach to academics. Originally a women-only institution, Sarah Lawrence first officially opened its doors to men in 1969.

Noted Alumni

• J.J. Abrams, film and television producer, writer, actor, composer, and director.
• Jill Clayburgh, Academy Award-nominated actress
• Austin Chick, director
• Brian De Palma, director of "Scarface (1983 Movie)" and ""
• Cary Elwes, actor
• Rahm Emanuel, U.S. House of Representatives, Fifth Congressional District of Illinois
• Tovah Feldshuh, actress
• Carolyn Ferrell, writer
• Amanda Foreman, award-winning biographer
• Cornelia Fort, pioneer aviatrix: first woman pilot to die on war duty in American history, at Pearl Harbor
• Robin Givens, actress
• Louise Gluck, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in poetry and former Poet Laureate of the United States
• Lesley Gore, singer and songwriter
• Katharine Houghton Grant, actress and Katherine Hepburn's Niece
• Lucy Grealy, Irish memoirist and poet
• Lauren Holly, actress
• Sue Kelly, (MA) Congresswoman, 19th Congressional District of New York
• Téa Leoni, actress
• Julianna Margulies, actress
• Meredith Monk, famed choreographer
• Yoko Ono, conceptual artist and wife of the late John Lennon, attended, but did not graduate
• Ann Patchett, award-winning author
• Holly Robinson, actress
• Elisabeth Röhm, actress
• Carly Simon, singer and songwriter
• Guinevere Turner, actress, producer, and writer
• Alice Walker, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, The Color Purple
• Barbara Walters, television personality
• Vera Wang, fashion designer
• Joanne Woodward, actress/political activist