Gary Johnson|Former Governor of New Mexico, 2012 and 2016 presidential candidate;
George Johnson|Science author;
Brian Jay Jones|Award-winning biographer of Washington Irving, Jim Henson and George Lucas;
past president of Biographers International Organization;
Bruce King|Former three-term Governor of New Mexico;
Edward Abbey|Environmental author and essayist;
Paige Ackerson-Kiely|Poet[citation needed;
John Adair|Pioneer of Navajo and Zuni cultural studies; in 1948, the university's first doctoral candidate in anthropology;
James Anaya|United Nations Special Rapporteur for Indigenous Human Rights[;
Rudolfo Anaya|American author. Best known for his 1972 novel Bless Me, Ultima;