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A'Lelia Bundles
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How Writer A’Lelia Bundles, Descendant of Madam C. J. Walker, Found Her Subject

Through sweeping biographies of her foremothers, the author shares a dazzling American inheritance. Her own story belongs on the same high shelf

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Supriya Ganesh on The Pitt

From Columbia to The Pitt

For Supriya Ganesh ’19CC, starring in the Emmy-nominated hospital drama wasn’t a far cry from reality

Aimee Ng, chief curator at the Frick Collection
Aimee Ng (Joseph Coscia Jr.)

5 Alumni Museum Curators Shaping the Art World Today

Through visionary exhibitions and programming, Columbia graduates are steering the direction of some of New York’s most prestigious museums

Collage of Oscar-winning movies with Columbia connections

18 Oscar ‘Best Picture’ Winners with Columbia Connections

Since the Golden Age of Hollywood, Columbians have contributed to some of the Academy’s most awarded movies

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Gilbert Highet and Classics at Columbia

The prolific author, charismatic teacher, renowned scholar, and devoted Columbian made his professional life an exuberant celebration of the classics

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Lionel Trilling at Columbia

Trilling's  essays mapped the terrain where literary, political, and social questions overlapped. His colleague Quentin Anderson also remembers him as a devoted teacher and mentor 

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Virginia Gildersleeve: Opening the Gates

The dean of Barnard College and adviser to Columbia Women Graduate Students did more to advance the cause of women at Columbia than any other person of her time

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Reminiscences of the Columbia History Department 1923-1975

Reflections from Jacques Barzun

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In the Desert With Joseph Krutch

In the last years of his productive life Krutch had become a lover of lizards and a confidant of coyotes

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Joseph Wood Krutch as a Cultural Critic

Though he may well be remembered most for his remarkable nature writing, it was as a cultural critic that Krutch gained his earliest recognition

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Joseph Wood Krutch: a Rare Critic

Krutch's classes were filled with entertainment, wit, and information as well as critical insights

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Da Ponte, MacDowell, Moore, and Lang

Four biographical essays by Jack Beeson

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