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AitN: January 16, 2018

Ai-Jen Poo '96
MacArthur Foundation

Michael Wolff ’75
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Michael Wolff ’75 authored Amazon’s current number 1 bestseller, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House. A January 5 Los Angeles Times article, “Michael Wolff, Author of New Trump Book, Not One to Shy Away from Controversy,” says, “ … magazine columnist and author Michael Wolff sparked a media storm this week with the publication of leaked excerpts of his forthcoming book … .”
These College alumni are also having big moments in publishing: Corey Kilgannon ’89 wrote the profile “Running an Indie Bookstore, With Churchillian Resolve” (published on December 28 in The New York Times), a profile of Barry Singer ’79, owner of Chartwell Booksellers, the only bookstore and memorabilia shop devoted exclusively to Winston Churchill. Atossa Araxia Abrahamian ’08, JRN’11 was also published in The New York Times; her December 5 article, “Who Loses When a Country Puts Citizenship Up for Sale?”, covers the plight of legally stateless people in the United Arab Emirates.

Brandon Victor Dixon '07
Jorg Meyer
Broadway actor and singer Brandon Victor Dixon ’07 performed at the 40th Annual Kennedy Center Honors, a national celebration of the arts, on December 2.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves '76
Bruce Gilbert
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