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  "In 1969, novelist and screenwriter Lillian Hellman was a visiting professor at MIT in the Department of Humanities, where she taught "The History of Rock and Roll."",
  "Alan Lightman, adjunct professor in the <a href='http://web.mit.edu/humanistic/www/' target='_blank'>Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies</a>, is a physicist and novelist acclaimed by the New York Times as &quot;equally at home in the realm of human passions and in the rarefied world of atoms and equations,&quot; He is author of the best-selling &quot;Einstein's Dreams&quot; (1993) and &quot;Good Benito&quot; (1995) and &quot;The Diagnosis,&quot; a finalist for the 2000 National Book Award in fiction. His fourth book, &quot;Reunion,&quot; (2003) is based on his experiences as an undergraduate at Princeton. Dr. Lightman headed the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies from 1991-1997 and was a senior lecturer in the Department of Physics. His scientific research is in theoretical astrophysics and he has authored two widely used textbooks. In 1996 he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and won the 1996 American Institute of Physics Andrew Gemant Award for linking science to the humanities.",
  "Junot D&iacute;az, professor in the <a href='http://web.mit.edu/humanistic/www/' target='_blank'>Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies</a>, is the Pulitzer Prize winning author of &quot;The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.&quot He also wrote &quot;Drown,&quot a widely acclaimed collection of short stories called &quot;stunning...a front-line report on the ambivalent promise of the American dream&quot; by the San Francisco Chronicle. Newsweek, which named him one of their &quot;New Faces of 1996&quot; wrote, &quot;Talent this big will always make noise.... D&iacute;az has the dispassionate eye of a journalist and the tongue of a poet.&quot;"
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