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.
Wednesday, April 1st at 7:00, St. Anthony Hall, 483 College St.
Gay Talese, author of The Bridge, Thy Neighbor's Wife, and A Writer's Life; in David Halberstam's words, "the most important nonfiction writer of his generation."
Thursday, April 16th at 7:00, LC 101
Edward P. Jones, has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, the National Book Critics Circle award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and the Lannan Literary Award for his 2003 novel, The Known World.
His first collection of stories, Lost in the City, won the PEN/Hemingway Award and was short listed for the National Book Award in 1999. His most recent collection, All Aunt Hagars Children, was a finalist for the Pen/Faulkner Award; five of the collected stories have been published in The New Yorker.
Jones has been an instructor of fiction writing various universities, including Princeton, and received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2004. He lives in Washington, D.C.
More information on these and other events is still to come.
Contact: susan.bianconi@yale.edu.
