List of Fordham University people

Arts and letters

• Francis J. Beckwith, Christian philosopher
• Thomas Cahill, best-selling author
• Ion Cârja, writer
• Paddy Chayefsky, playwright, screenwriter (attended, no degree)
• Mary Higgins Clark, bestselling suspense novelist
• Ed Dee, author
• Don DeLillo, National Book Award and PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author
• Richard Foerster, Award-winning poet
• Norman Frauenheim, American pianist and music instructor
• David Kolb, philosopher at Bates College
• John LaFarge, painter, muralist, designer of stained-glass windows
• Virginia O'Hanlon, as a child, wrote a letter to the New York Sun asking about Santa Claus which prompted the famous response "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus"...... ...
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