William Finnegan is an author and staff writer at The New Yorker magazine. His works discuss international journalism and specifically address issues of racism and conflict in Southern Africa and politics in Mexico and South America, as well as poverty among youth in the United States, and is well known for his writings on surfing. Finnegan’s autobiographical […]
Join us for the Distinguished Writers Series with Mary Karr Mary Karr is an American poet, essayist and memoirist who rose to fame in 1955 with the publication of her best-selling memoir The Liars Club. It was a best seller for over a year, and was named one of the year’s best books. Keller was […]
A reading followed by a Q&A with Paul Beatty. Paul Beatty is an acclaimed novelist, poet, and essayist known for his incisive satire and his depictions of black American experience. His 2016 novel The Sellout earned him critical raves and numerous awards, including the Man Booker Prize, making Beatty the first American to earn that […]
A reading followed by a Q&A with the writer. Located in the Faculty Dining Room
Elizabeth Strout is the author of six books of fiction. Her debut, Amy and Isabelle was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and nominated for the PEN/Faulkner. Her next novel, Olive Kitteridge, won the Pulitzer Prize and was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award. The following two were both New York Times best sellers, and her most […]
Tarfia Faizullah is the author of two poetry collections, Registers of Illuminated Villages and Seam. She has received a Fulbright fellowship, three Pushcart prizes and other honors, and her work has been translated into Bengali, Persian, Chinese, and Tamil. In 2016, Tarfia was recognized by Harvard Law School as one of 50 Women Inspiring Change.
Deborah Eisenberg is the author of multiple short story collections, most recently Your Duck Is My Duck in 2018, and is the recipient of literary honors including the PEN/Faulkner Award (for The Collected Short Stories of Deborah Eisenberg), the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story, the Rea Award for the Short Story, a Whiting Award, a […]
Yiyun Li is the author of four works of fiction—Kinder Than Solitude, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, The Vagrants, and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl—and the memoir Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life. She is the recipient of awards, including a PEN/Hemingway Award and a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, and […]
The Spring 2019 Distinguished Writers Series concludes with a special reading by Monica Youn. Monica Youn is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Blackacre, which won the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America. It was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Kingsley Tufts […]
Roxana Robinson is the author of ten books - six novels, three collections of short stories, and the biography of Georgia O’Keeffe. Four of these were chosen as New York Times Notable Books , two as New York Times Editors’ Choices. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, Best American Short […]
