will read from their works
Members of Yale's faculty who are noted writers will read from their recent work during an evening gathering on Monday, Oct. 9.
The reading, which is free and open to the public, will take place at 7 p.m. in Rm. 102 of Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 61 High St. The readers will be novelist John Crowley, poets Louise Glück, John Hollander and J. D. McClatchy, playwright Donald Margulies and non-fiction writers Anne Fadiman and Fred Strebeigh.
"This group reading is a special event," says Langdon Hammer, chair of the Department of English. "Frankly, our roster of writers is rivaled only by the faculty at universities that offer large graduate programs in writing, and I think ours is the best undergraduate education in writing available. This is something to celebrate, and the group reading is an exciting way to do that."
Current faculty writers join a tradition of distinguished writers who have taught at Yale, such as Robert Penn Warren and John Hersey. The following are brief descriptions of the readers at the Oct. 9 event.
Crowley is the author of nine novels and two collections of short fiction, including "Little, Big," which won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. He also works in film and television.
Fadiman's first book, "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down," won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She has since published "Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader," and her work appears in The New Yorker and Harper's.
Glück's most recent book of poems, "Averno," was preceded by nine other collections, which earned the Pulitzer Prize, the Bollingen Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is a former Poet Laureate of the United States.
Hollander has published 18 books of poems and eight books of criticism. He has won the Bollingen Prize and was recently named the Poet Laureate of Connecticut.
Margulies received the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play "Dinner With Friends." His many other plays, which have been performed at major theaters throughout North America and around the world, include "Brooklyn Boy," "Sight Unseen," "Collected Stories" and "The Model Apartment."
McClatchy is the author of five books of poems and three volumes of essays, and he has edited dozens more. Also an opera librettist, his work has been performed at the Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden and the Los Angeles Opera.
Strebeigh has written for American Heritage, Atlantic Monthly, Audubon, Smithsonian and The New York Times Magazine. He is completing a book, "Equality Time," and has been awarded Yale's DeVane Medal for distinguished teaching.
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