<p>I might add, taking a look at [English</a> @ Wesleyan](<a href=“http://www.wesleyan.edu/english/writing.html]English”>http://www.wesleyan.edu/english/writing.html) , that Wes alumni have done very well, earning the Whiting Writers’ award, the National Magazine Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, Edgar Allan Poe Award, and of course, the Pulitzer Prize. having Sebastian Junger (author of The Perfect Storm) and Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket, who wrote A Series of Unfortunate Events) as alums isn’t too shabby either.</p>