Voices and Ideas

Parks (ΦBK, Mount Holyoke) was the first African-American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize in drama, which she won in 1999 for Topdog/Underdog.

Vanda Krefft (ΦBK, University of Pennsylvania) is the author of The Man Who Made the Movies: The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of William Fox.

With a background in theater and computer science, Greg Edwards (ΦBK, Yale) explains how his position with Google fills an emotional niche similar to writing.

For Jim Peck (ΦBK, Carleton College), a liberal arts education is in perpetual motion: "It's the kind of notion that knowledge isn’t static—it’s a thing that gets made."

Fr. Walter Ong (ΦΒΚ, St. Louis University) revolutionized scholars’ understanding of language. His home campus honors him with a "Pillars of the University" marker.

As a student, ΦBK member Therese Bottomly didn't know how to plan for her career, so she focused on the liberal arts. Now she's the editor and vice president of The Oregonian.