LITERATURE, PLAYS, AND POETRY

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This page lists the plays, stage musicals, novels, and poems that reference Vassar. See separate pages for music/radio and alternative media.
 

Stage Plays and Musicals

Maxwell Anderson, The Star Wagon
Jon Robin Baitz, The Substance of Fire
David Ives, Sure Thing
Nora Ephron, Imaginary Friends
Marvin Hamlisch/John Guare/Craig Carnelia, The Sweet Smell of Success*
Joshua Harmon, Bad Jews
Ira Levin, Deathtrap
Frank Loesser, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Wendy Wasserstein, The Heidi Chronicles
Wendy Wasserstein, Isn’t It Romantic?
Wendy Wasserstein, Uncommon Women and Others
Kurt Weill/Ira Gershwin, Lady in the Dark (song: “The Saga of Jenny”)
Craig Wright, Grace
Brian Yorkey, if/then (song: "Some Other Me")

Novels and Short Stories

Woody Allen, Mr. Big
Woody Allen, The Whore of Mensa
Lisa Alther, Politics of Paradise*
Julia Alvarez, In the Name of Salome
Julia Alvarez, The Secret Footprints*
Margaret Atwood, The Testaments
Lauren Belfer, City of Light
Lawrence Block, Hit List
T. Corraghesan Boyle, World’s End
William S. Burroughs, Western Lands
Meg Cabot, Princess Diaries
Elizabeth Champney, Three Vassar Girls Abroad
Elizabeth Champney, Three Vassar Girls at Home
Elizabeth Champney, Three Vassar Girls in England
Elizabeth Champney, Three Vassar Girls in France
Elizabeth Champney, Three Vassar Girls in Italy
Elizabeth Champney, Three Vassar Girls in Russia and Turkey
Elizabeth Champney, Three Vassar Girls in South America
Elizabeth Champney, Three Vassar Girls in Switzerland
Elizabeth Champney, Three Vassar Girls in the Holy Land
Elizabeth Champney, Three Vassar Girls in the Tyrol
Elizabeth Champney, Three Vassar Girls on the Rhine
Tom Clancy, The Sum of All Fears
Michael Crichton, Disclosure
Amanda Cross, Question of Max
Nelson DeMille, The Maze
Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis, Rules of Attraction
Rosario Ferré, The House on the Lagoon
Sara Fitzgerald, Rumors
Esther Friesner, Unicorn U.
Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies
Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire
Brooks Hansen/Nick Davis, Boone
Shelby Hearon, Group Therapy
Mark Helprin, In Sunlight and In Shadow
Spencer Holst, "Miss Lady" (in The Language of Cats)
Jon Katz, Death by Station Wagon
Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted
William Kennedy, Ironweed
Stephen King, "The Answer Man" in You Like It Darker
Stephen King, Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
Stephen King, Doctor Sleep
Stephen King, Dolores Claiborne
Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis
Stephen King, Later
Stephen King, Needful Things (characters named after dorms)
Stephen King, Under the Dome
Reif Larsen, Selected Works of TS Spivet
Robin Lippincott, Our Arcadia
Bruce Makous, Riding the Brand*
Robert R. McCammon, "A Life in the Day of..."
Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus, Nanny Diaries
Terrence McNally, Some Men
James Michener, The Novel
Anton Myrer, The Last Convertible
Naomi Neale, I Went to Vassar for This?
Ann Patchett, State of Wonder
Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Call Me Irresistible
Philip Roth, The Great American Novel
J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
Beth Saulnier, Bad Seed
Beth Saulnier, Distemper
Beth Saulnier, Fourth Wall
Beth Saulnier, Reliable Sources
David Schickler, Fourth Angry Mouse
Cathleen Schine, Evolution of Jane
Jane Smiley, Moo
Karin Tanabe, The Gilded Years
Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt, Secret History
Elizabeth Atwood Taylor, Murder at Vassar
Melissa Thorndyke, My Family and I*
Lucian K. Truscott, Dress Grey
Scott Turow, Ordinary Heroes
Jennifer Weiner, Fly Away Home
Jennifer Weiner, Then Came You
Lauren Weisberger, Devil Wears Prada
Connie Willis, Blackout
F. Paul Wilson, Nightkill
Tom Wolfe, Bonfire of the Vanities
Tom Wolfe, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Herman Wouk, Marjorie Morningstar
Kitty Zeldis, Not Our Kind
Laura Zigman, Her

*Not personally verified

Poetry

Isaac Asimov wrote the following limerick: