From Plath to Kissinger, notable Fulbright alumni

Fulbright alumni include 53 Nobel Prize winners and 80 Pulitzer Prize recipients. At least 29 alumni have served as heads of state or government. Notable recipients include:

Writer John Steinbeck, Fulbright Specialist to the Soviet Union, 1963. Received 1940 Pulitzer Prize in fiction.

Composer Aaron Copland. Fulbright Scholar to the United Kingdom, 1961; Japan, 1962; Germany, 1963-64; Austria, 1964; and Italy, 1964. Received 1945 Pulitzer Prize in music.

Poet Sylvia Plath. Fulbright Student to the United Kingdom, 1955. Posthumously received 1982 Pulitzer Prize in poetry.

Writer John Updike. Fulbright Scholar to Ghana and Nigeria (Lincoln Lecturer), 1973. Received 1982 and 1991 Pulitzer Prize in fiction.

Former Executive Editor of The New York Times Joseph Lelyveld. Fulbright Student to Burma, 1960.

Received 1986 Pulitzer Prize in general non-fiction.

U.S. economist Joseph Stiglitz. Fulbright Student in the United Kingdom 1969-70. Nobel laureate in economics, 2001.

Economist Milton Friedman, Fulbright Scholar to the United Kingdom, 1953-54. Nobel laureate in economics, 1976.

Henry Kissinger, Fulbright Specialist in India, 1962-63. Nobel Peace Prize, 1973. Former Haitian Prime Minister

Garry Conille, Fulbright Foreign Student Program, 1998. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, Fulbright Foreign Student Program, 1980.

Chilean President Sebastián Echenique Piñera, Fulbright Foreign Student Program, 1973-74.

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