The Schlesinger Visiting Writer Series
The John Christophe Schlesinger Visiting Writer Series was established to enrich the experience of student writers in Yale College. The series is the result of a gift from Richard and Sheila Schlesinger in memory of their son, who was an interested and dedicated student writer.
Each year, distinguished writers are invited to visit campus to give a public reading and meet and confer with student writers in a variety of settings, formal and informal.
Visiting Writers of the past include Malcolm Gladwell, Paul Muldoon, Colson Whitehead, John Edgar Wideman, Peter Matthiessen, Joan Didion, Edna O'Brien, Caryl Phillips, Norman Mailer, Mark Strand, Lorrie Moore, Jhumpa Lahiri, Ian Frazier, Stephen Sondheim, and W.S. Merwin.
Please look often for upcoming notable writers.
Tuesday, September 25th at 7:00, Saint Anthony Hall
Jonathan Safran Foer, author of two novels and dozens of short stories. Foer is one of the most acclaimed and controversial young novelists writing today. After studying with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton, he published his first novel, Everything Is Illuminated, in 2002 to widespread and fervent critical acclaim, winning the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction and The Guardian First Book Award. Inspired by Foer’s own familial research in Ukraine, the book follows a young man named for the author on his surreal quest for family and personal identity, and was adapted for the screen in 2005. Foer’s second novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, examines post-9/11 New York City through the eyes of a precocious nine-year-old, and was published in 2005.
More information on these and other events is still to come.
Contact: susan.bianconi@yale.edu.
