The Montgomery Fellows Program has reached out across the disciplines and beyond academic life, installing on campus playwrights and film directors such as Edward Albee and Werner Herzog, novelists Chinua Achebe, John Cheever, Louise Erdrich, Grace Paley, or Philip Roth; from minimalist composer Steve Reich to cellist Yo Yo Ma; scientists such as Stephen Jay Gould or Oliver Sacks; politicians like governors Richard Lamm and Shirley Williams, or journalists like David Brooks and Richard Hertzberg.