Veteran TV executive Andrea Wong, MBA ’93, who oversaw a string of successes most recently as head of Lifetime Networks and earlier at ABC, has joined Sony Pictures Entertainment as president of international production for Sony Pictures Television, and as international president, based in London, for SPE.
Several Stanford people were among the winners of this year’s PEN Literary Awards and PEN American Center awards. Robert Pinsky, MA ’65, PhD ’67, was honored with a lifetime achievement award. He is a former U.S. poet laureate. Po Bronson, ’86, and co-author Ashley Merriman received the journalism award for their Newsweek story “The Creativity Crisis.” Siddhartha Mukherjee, ’93, won the literary science writing award for his bestselling The Emperor of All Maladies. Playwright David Henry Hwang, ’79, was named this year’s master American dramatist. Classics and history professor Ian Morris took the research nonfiction award for Why the West Rules—For Now. And Joel Streicker, PhD ’92, won a PEN translation fund grant to translate a collection of short stories from Spanish into English.
Ted Danson, ’70, made waves last April when he capped 25 years of conservation activism with the book Oceana. This fall, attention returned to his acting career when Danson joined the cast of the CBS drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation in the role of graveyard-shift supervisor.
Nathan Winograd, JD ’95, long an animal rights activist promoting “no-kill” animal shelters, has taken a new turn in his advocacy: He’s the co-author of what could be called a “no-kill” cookbook: All American Vegan: Veganism for the Rest of Us.
Classics professor Reviel Netz has been key to decoding the Archimedes Palimpsest and translating it into English ever since the ancient and long-lost manuscript resurfaced in 1998. Now the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore is showcasing his and others’ work on the project in an exhibition that runs through January 1, 2012.
