Chapin School is an all-girls independent day school located on Manhattan's Upper East Side in New York City.
The following is a list of its notable alumni.
Mary Abbott, 1939, painter, member of New York School of Abstract Expressionists Theodora Mead Abel, 1917, psychology professor, author, Culture and Psychotherapy Amy Bach, 1986, lawyer, civil rights journalist, author, Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court Elizabeth Bailey, 1956, economist; John C. Hower Professor, Wharton School; member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Lake Bell, 1998, model; actress, Boston Legal, Million Dollar Arm, The Secret Life of Pets; filmmaker, In a World.... Barbara Bennett, 1924, stage and film actress, dancer, literary representative Constance Bennett, 1922, stage, radio, television and film actress; star of What Price Hollywood?, Topper, and Two-Faced Woman Joan Bennett, 1928, stage, film, and television actress; star of Man Hunt, The Woman in the Window, and Dark Shadows Tonya Bolden, 1976, author of children's non-fiction such as Pathfinders: The Journeys of 16 Extraordinary Black Souls Patricia Bosworth, 1951, journalist; biographer; actress; model; managing editor, Harper's Bazaar Jacqueline Bouvier, 1947, First Lady of the United States, editor Elizabeth Mills Brown, 1934, architectural historian; author, New Haven: A Guide to Architecture and Urban Design Sunny von Bülow, 1950, socialite, legal catalyst Doris Caesar, 1910, Expressionist sculptor Stockard Channing, 1962, actress in stage, film, and television Frances Sergeant Childs, 1919, historian; founding faculty member, Brooklyn College; author, French Refugee Life in the United States, 1790–1800: An American Chapter of the French Revolution (1940) Hope Cooke, 1958, queen of Sikkim, journalist, urban historian, lecturer Tricia Nixon Cox, 1964, board member for medical and Republican causes Cusi Cram, 1985, model; actor, One Life to Live; writer, Arthur, The Big C, The Octonauts Caresse Crosby, 1909, "literary godmother" to the Lost Generation in Paris; co-founder, Black Sun Press; inventor of the bra Lindsay Crouse, 1967, actress of stage, film, and television Fernanda Eberstadt, 1978, novelist, essayist, critic; author, Isaac and His Devils, Rat, and The Furies Julie Nixon Eisenhower, 1966, editor; author, Pat Nixon: the Untold Story Brenda Frazier, 1939, socialite, known as a "Poor Little Rich Girl" Alix M. Freedman, 1975, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist; ethics editor, Thomson Reuters Kiran Gandhi, 2007, musician and activist Virginia Gilder, 1976, entrepreneur, writer, co-owner of WNBA's Seattle Storm, Olympic silver medalist in rowing, author of Course Correction: A Story of Rowing and Resilience in the Wake of Title IX Neva Goodwin Rockefeller, 1962, economist, series editor of Evolving Values for a Capitalist World, philanthropist Isabella Greenway, 1904, rancher, businesswoman, politician, first Arizona congresswoman Eileen Rockefeller Growald, 1970, venture philanthropist Anna Roosevelt Halsted, 1924, journalist, editor, administrator Deborah Hautzig, 1974 writer, author of Hey, Dollface and the Little Witch series for children Amanda Hearst, 2002, fashion model, socialite, activist, editor of Marie Claire Frances Hellman, 1974, physicist, dean of Division of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of California, Berkeley Malvina Hoffman, 1903, sculptor, author, Heads and Tales Helen Hooker, 1923, sculptor, painter, national tennis champion, philanthropist Alexandra Isles, 1963, documentary filmmaker, Porraimos: Europe's Gypsies in the Holocaust; actress, Dark Shadows Theodora Keogh, 1937, dancer, novelist, adventurer, author, Meg: The Secret Life of an Awakening Girl Alexandra Kotur, 1988, journalist; style director, Vogue; creative director, Town and Country Nicola Kraus, 1992, writer, co-author, The Nanny Diaries Aerin Lauder, 1988, businesswoman, creative director of Estée Lauder; co-author, Beauty at Home Jane Lauder, 1991, businesswoman; global director, Estée Lauder Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1924, writer, aviator, author, Gift from the Sea and North to the Orient"Anne Morrow Lindbergh." Biography.com. Retrieved: November 17, 2011. Ruth du Pont Lord, 1939, psychotherapist, arts patron, author, Henry F. du Pont and Winterthur: A Daughter's Portrait Sarah Lyall, 1981, journalist, The New York Times; author, The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British Emma Fordyce MacRae, 1905, representational painter; member of the Philadelphia Ten Abby Rockefeller Mauzé, 1921, philanthropist Neylan McBaine, 1995, writer; author of How to Be a Twenty-First Century Pioneer Woman; editor of Mormon Women Project Cynthia McClintock, 1963, professor, George Washington University; author, Revolutionary Movements in Latin America Lynden B. Miller, 1956, public garden designer and author Maud Morgan, 1921, abstract expressionist painter[Maud's Journey: A Life from Art. By Maud Morgan. ] Andrea Blaugrund Nevins, 1980, journalist, documentary filmmaker, The Other F Word Sheila Nickerson, 1960, writer; Poet laureate of Alaska; author, Disappearance: A Map and The Song of the Soapstone Carver Galt Niederhoffer, 1994, producer, director, novelist, screenwriter, Prozac Nation, The Romantics Queen Noor of Jordan (Lisa Halaby), 1969, activist, writer, president, United World Colleges Jennifer "DJ" (Berinstein) Nordquist, 1985, government, international organization, and think tank executive Maud Oakes, 1922, ethnologist, artist, writer, author, The Two Crosses of Todos Santos: Survivals of Mayan Religious Ritual Sister Parish (Dorothy May Kinnicutt), 1928, interior designer Betty Parsons, 1918, abstract painter, art collector, art dealer Cosima von Bülow Pavoncelli, 1985, socialite, philanthropist Joan Whitney Payson, 1921, art collector; co-owner, Greentree Stable; owner, the New York Mets; philanthropist Georgia Pellegrini, 1998, hunter, chef, writer Adela Peña, 1981, violinist, founding member of the internationally known Naumburg Award-winning Eroica Trio Rosamond Pinchot, 1922, actress, "loveliest woman in America" Lilly Pulitzer, 1949, fashion designer Lee Radziwill, 1951, socialite and interior designer Blanchette Ferry Rockefeller, 1927, philanthropist, president, Museum of Modern Art Eileen Rockefeller, 1970, philanthropist Samantha Ronson, 1995, singer-songwriter, DJ Margot Roosevelt, 1968, journalist Laura Rothenberg, 1999, writer Edith Finch Russell, 1918, biographer, author, Carey Thomas of Bryn Mawr Rachel Rutherford, 1994, dancer, soloist, New York City Ballet Lilian Swann Saarinen, 1930, sculptor, illustrator, Olympic skier Najla Said, 1992, writer, actor, playwright, author, Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab-American Family Lydia Sargent, 1959, feminist activist; co-founder, South End Press and Z Magazine; author, I Read About My Death in Vogue Magazine Louise Serpa, 1943, rodeo photographer Delia Sherman, 1968, fantasy writer, editor, author, The Porcelain Dove and The Freedom Maze Gladys Vanderbilt Széchenyi, 1904, heiress Ivanka Trump, 2000, businesswoman, executive vice president, the Trump Organization Nancy Tuckerman, 1947, social secretary for Jackie Bouvier Kennedy, 1963–1994; co-author, revised edition of Amy Vanderbilt's Complete Book of Etiquette Anne Walker, 1991, architectural historian, co-author, The Architecture of Delano & Aldrich and The Finest Rooms in America Challis Walker, 1930, sculptor, painter Vera Wang, 1967, former senior editor, Vogue; fashion designer Sigourney Weaver, 1968, actress, producer Aileen Osborn Webb, 1910, philanthropist, founder, American Craft Council Betty Wei, 1949, historian, author, Old Shanghai and Liu Chi-Wen: biography of a revolutionary leader Christine Todd Whitman, 1964, politician, lobbyist, former governor of New Jersey Dorothy Payne Whitney, 1904, social activist, co-founder, The New Republic and the New School for Social Research Helen Whitney, 1961, documentary filmmaker, First Edition, Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero, and The Mormons Lauren Willig, 1995, historical novelist, author, Pink Carnation series and The Forgotten Room Jane Wyatt, 1928, actress, Father Knows Best
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