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====Alumni in literature and journalism==== In literature and journalism, the school boasts over 25 [[Pulitzer Prizes]] credited to alumni and faculty members,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://journalism100.utexas.edu/pulitzer/|title=Pulitzer Prize Awardees; Moody College of Communication|publisher=Moody.utexas.edu|access-date=November 22, 2023|archive-date=July 7, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240707045349/http://journalism100.utexas.edu/pulitzer/|url-status=dead}}</ref> including [[Gail Caldwell]] and [[Ben Sargent]]. [[Walter Cronkite]], the former [[CBS Evening News]] anchor once called the most trusted man in America, attended the University of Texas at Austin, as did [[CNN]] anchor [[Betty Nguyen]]. Alumnus [[J. M. Coetzee]] also received the 2003 [[Nobel Prize in Literature]]. Novelist [[Raymond Benson]] was the official author of James Bond novels between 1996 and 2002, the only American to be commissioned to pen them. [[Donna Alvermann]], a distinguished research professor at the University of Georgia, department of education also graduated from the University of Texas, as did [[Wallace Clift]] and [[Jean Dalby Clift]], authors of several books in the fields of psychology of religion and spiritual growth. Notable alumni authors also include [[Kovid Gupta]], author of several bestselling books, [[Ruth Cowan Nash]], America's first woman war correspondent, and [[Alireza Jafarzadeh]], author of "The Iran Threat: President Ahmadinejad and the Coming Nuclear Crisis" and television commentator.{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}} Although expelled from the university, former student and [[The Daily Texan]] writer [[John Patric#Blunderbuss|John Patric]] went on to become a noted writer for ''[[National Geographic]]'', ''[[Reader's Digest]]'', and author of 1940s best-seller ''Why Japan was Strong''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Patric|first=John|title=Yankee Hobo in the Orient|edition=8th|location=Florence, OR|publisher=John Patric|year=1945|lccn=47003382|oclc=2044145}}</ref>{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}
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