Artists & Authors

• Award-winning author of A Lesson Before Dying, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and A Gathering of Old Men.
• Is an inductee in the American Academy of Arts of Letters and the French Order of Arts and Letters.
• Published his first story in 1956 in San Francisco State's Transfer literary magazine.

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Notable CSU Graduates in Arts & Media

Raynor Carroll	Michelle DeYoung	George Duke	Sid Fleischman
Ernest Gaines	Danny Glover	Jayne Ann Krentz	Anne Rice
Raul R. Rodriguez	Frank Romero	Daniel Silva	Amy Tan