David McKinney (1956) is former president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, N.Y.

Owen Davis, an 1889 graduate, won the Pulitzer Prize for his play Icebound in 1923.

Harvey B. Broome (1923) was a cofounder of the National Wilderness Society and served as its president from 1957 to 1968. A Knoxville attorney, he was the author of Earth Man, Faces of the Wilderness, and Out Under the Sky of the Great Smokies.

George W. Ochs (1880) was mayor of Chattanooga and general manager of the Chattanooga Times. He was also editor and publisher of the Philadelphia Public Ledger.

Joseph Wood Krutch (1915) was an author as well as drama critic and associate editor of The Nation. His The Measure of Man won the National Book Award for nonfiction in 1955.

Clarence Leon Brown (1910) directed or produced 53 films, nine of which won Academy Awards. Brown and his wife, Marian, donated $12 million to the university’s theater department. The Clarence Brown Theater at UT in Knoxville is named in his honor.

Lindsay Young (1935) was a Knoxville philanthropist. He was honored by UT with its Volunteer of the Year award in 2002.

Anna Catherine Wiley, who attended UT from 1895 to 1897, was an artist. Her paintings have been exhibited at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, National Academy of Design, and Cincinnati Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, owns one of her paintings.

Joseph Walker McSpadden graduated from UT in the 1890s. He was a prolific author. He is best known for his Robin Hood (1891) and succeeding tales of Robin Hood, but among his other publications are Opera Synopses (1920), Shakesperian Synopses (1923), Stories from Great Operas (1923), California: A Romantic Story for Young People (1926), Boys’ [...]

Richard Marius (1954) was an author and director of the expository writing program at Harvard University. His Thomas More was nominated for a National Book Award.