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The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. With 52,384 students as of Fall 2022, it is also the largest institution in the system.Founded in 1883, UT Austin is considered a Public Ivy. The university is a major center for academic research, with research expenditures totaling $679.8 million for fiscal year 2018. It joined the Association of American Universities in 1929. The university houses seven museums and seventeen libraries, including the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and the Blanton Museum of Art, and operates various auxiliary research facilities, such as the J. J. Pickle Research Campus and the McDonald Observatory. Student-athletes compete as the Texas Longhorns. The Longhorns have won four NCAA Division I National Football Championships, six NCAA Division I National Baseball Championships, thirteen NCAA Division I National Men's Swimming and Diving Championships, and the school has claimed more titles in men's and women's sports than any other member in the Big 12. As of November 2020, 13 Nobel Prize winners, over 25 Pulitzer Prize winners, three Turing Award winners, two Fields Medal recipients, two Wolf Prize winners, and three Abel Prize winners have been affiliated with the school as alumni, faculty members, or researchers. The university has also been affiliated with three Primetime Emmy Award winners, and as of 2021, its students and alumni have earned a total of 155 Olympic medals. Source: Wikipedia (en)
Authors educated at University of Texas at Austin 95
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Olen Steinhauer
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John Lewis Gaddis
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Yaron Brook
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Jacques Vallée
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Walter Cronkite
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J. M. Coetzee
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Robert Rodriguez
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Chris Ware
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Joe R. Lansdale
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Gunnar Hansen
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Ruthanne Lum McCunn
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Spencer Wells
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Robert L. Park
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Robert Plomin
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Blake Neely
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Steven Saylor
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Colum McCann
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Catherine Coulter
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Berkeley Breathed
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Daniel A. Helminiak
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Walter M. Miller
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Adrienne Kennedy
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Ethan Hawke
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Raymond Benson
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Guillermo Gonzalez
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Siva Vaidhyanathan
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Tony Rothman
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Samuel S. Wilks
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Roberto Orci
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William Humphrey
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Laura Bush
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Yuri Slezkine
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