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Jones Lectureship
The Jones Lectureship at Stanford University is a two-year teaching fellowship available to previous Stegner Fellowship, Stegner Fellows. The Lectureship is available in fiction and poetry and is intended to provide writers with the time and support needed to complete book-length literary projects. Jones Lecturers typically teach several undergraduate courses per year. The Lectureship is named for Richard Foster Jones, head of the Stanford English Department when Wallace Stegner founded Stanford's Creative Writing Program following the end of Second World War. The original $500,000 endowment for the Lectureship came from Dr. E. H. Jones, a Texas oilman and brother of Richard Foster Jones. Other appointments available to former Stegner Fellows include the Marsh McCall Lectureship and the Draper Lectureship, each two-year appointments at Stanford University. The Marsh McCall Lecturer oversees the staffing and teaching of creative writing courses at Stanford Continuing Studies. It is na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanford University
Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is considered among the most prestigious universities in the world. Stanford was founded in 1885 by Leland and Jane Stanford in memory of their only child, Leland Stanford Jr., who had died of typhoid fever at age 15 the previous year. Leland Stanford was a U.S. senator and former governor of California who made his fortune as a railroad tycoon. The school admitted its first students on October 1, 1891, as a coeducational and non-denominational institution. Stanford University struggled financially after the death of Leland Stanford in 1893 and again after much of the campus was damaged by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Following World War II, provost of Stanford Frederick Terman inspired and supported faculty and graduates' entrepreneu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Young
Albert James Young (May 31, 1939 – April 17, 2021) was an American poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and professor. He was named Poet Laureate of California by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger from 2005 to 2008. Young's many books included novels, collections of poetry, essays, and memoirs. His work appeared in literary journals and magazines including ''Paris Review'', ''Ploughshares'', ''Essence'', ''The New York Times'', ''Chicago Review'', '' Seattle Review'', ''Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz & Literature'', ''Chelsea'', ''Rolling Stone'', ''Gathering of the Tribes,'' and in anthologies including the ''Norton Anthology of African American Literature,'' and the ''Oxford Anthology of African American Literature.'' Early life Born May 31, 1939, in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, on the Gulf Coast near Biloxi. His maternal grandparents had been sharecroppers. Young attended the "Kingston School for Colored", a segregated school in the South. He graduated in 1957 from Ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed McClanahan
Edward Poage McClanahan (October 5, 1932 – November 27, 2021) was an American novelist, essayist, and professor. Biography McClanahan was born in Brooksville, Kentucky on October 5, 1932, to Edward Leroy and Jessie (Poage) McClanahan. He attended school there and later in nearby Maysville, Kentucky, where the family relocated in 1948. McClanahan attended Washington and Lee University for one year before leaving for Miami University, where he received a B.A. in English in 1955. He briefly attended Stanford University's graduate English program during the 1955–1956 academic year, where he studied under Richard Scowcroft and Malcolm Cowley; after failing to acclimate to the program, he received an M.A. in English from the University of Kentucky in 1958. From 1958 to 1962, McClanahan taught first-year composition and a creative writing course previously taught by Bernard Malamud as an instructor at Oregon State University. He received a Stegner Fellowship in Stanford University's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Vann (writer)
David Vann was born October 19, 1966 on Adak Island in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. He is a novelist and short story writer, and is currently a professor of creative writing at the University of Warwick in England. Vann received a Guggenheim Fellowship and has been a National Endowment of the Arts fellow, a Wallace Stegner fellow, and a John L’Heureux fellow. His work has appeared in many magazines and newspapers. His books have been published in 23 languages and have won 14 prizes and been on 83 'best books of the year' lists. They have been selected for the ''New Yorker'' Book Club, the ''Times'' Book Club, the Samlerens Bogklub in Denmark and have been optioned for film by Inkfactory and Haut et Court. He has appeared in documentaries with the BBC, CNN, PBS, National Geographic, and E! Entertainment. Works * 2005 — ''A Mile Down: The True Story of a Disastrous Career at Sea'' * 2008 — ''Legend of a Suicide'', stories and a novella * 2011 — ''Caribou Island'' * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dana Kletter
Dana Kletter (born October 21, 1959) is an American musician and writer. Biography Kletter and her twin sister Karen were born in Baltimore, Maryland and raised in New York. Dana began playing piano at age four. She attended American University in Washington, D.C. where she studied piano with Alan Mandel. She left music school and submerged herself in the DC Hardcore punk rock scene at its apex, in the early 1980s. There she met the friends who would become part of her professional musical life. blackgirls Dana moved to Raleigh, North Carolina in 1985 and formed blackgirls, described by the ''Chicago Reader'' as a "dark art-folk trio," with Eugenia Lee Johnson and Hollis Brown. The band performed for several years and released a single as part of the ''Evil I Do Not To Nod I Live'' boxset with four other North Carolina bands (including the early bands of Superchunk guitarist and Merge Records mastermind Mac McCaughan), and a five song EP, ''Speechless''. In his Spin mag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belle Randall
Belle may refer to: * Belle (''Beauty and the Beast'') * Belle (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Belle (surname), a list of people Brands and enterprises * Belle Air, a former airline with headquarters in Tirana, Albania * Belle Air Europe, a subsidiary of Belle Air in the Kosovo * Belle Baby Carriers, an American baby carrier manufacturer * Belle International, a Chinese footwear retailer Film and television * ''Belle'' (1973 film), a Belgian-French drama film by André Delvaux * ''Belle'' (2013 film), a British film by Amma Asante * ''Belle'' (2021 film), a Japanese animated film by Mamoru Hosoda * ''Belle's'', an American comedy TV series that premiered in 2013 Music * ''Belle'' (album), a 2011 album by Bic Runga * "Belle" (Patrick Fiori, Daniel Lavoie and Garou song), a song from the 1998 musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel ''Notre Dame de Paris'' * "Belle" (Disney song), a song written for Disney's 1991 film ''Beauty and the Beast'' * ''Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Orozco
Daniel Orozco is an American writer of fiction known primarily for his short stories. His works have appeared in anthologies such as ''The Best American Short Stories'' and ''The Pushcart Prize Anthology'' and magazines such as ''Harper's'' and ''Zoetrope''. He is a former Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer of Stanford University and currently teaches creative writing at the University of Idaho. He won a 2011 Whiting Award. Orozco's best-known short story is "Orientation", which originally appeared in '' The Seattle Review'' and has subsequently been included in ''The Best American Short Stories 1995'', and presented in audio form on National Public Radio. ''Orientation: And Other Stories'', a collection of Orozco's work, was published by Faber & Faber in May 2011. Early life and education Orozco was born in 1957 in Daly City, California, the son of Nicaraguan immigrants. He was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area up until his 30s, during which time he attended Stanford Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Campion
Peter Campion (born 1976) is an American poet. He graduated from Dartmouth College with a BA, and from Boston University with an MA. He taught at Washington College, Ashland University, and Auburn University. He currently teaches at University of Minnesota and heads the Department of Creative Writing there. His work has appeared in ''AGNI, ArtNews, The Boston Globe, Modern Painters, The New York Times, The New Republic, Poetry, Slate, and The Yale Review''. He won a Levis Reading Prize, for ''The Lions''. He was a Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, a Theodore Morrison Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and a Guggenheim Fellow. He won a Pushcart Prize, and Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters The American Academy of Arts and Letters is a 300-member honor society whose goal is to "foster, assist, and sustain excellence" in American literature, music, and art. Its fixed number membership is elected for l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nan Cohen
Nan Cohen (born 1968) is an American poet and teacher. She has published two poetry collections, ''Rope Bridge'' and ''Unfinished City''. Life She was raised in Reisterstown, Maryland, and graduated from Yale University and the University of California, Los Angeles. Web page titled "Nan Cohen", accessed November 19, 2006 Her poetry collections are ''Rope Bridge'' (Cherry Grove, 2005) and ''Unfinished City'' (Gunpowder Press, 2007). Cohen's poems have appeared in '' Tikkun (magazine), Tikkun'', '' Poetry International'', '' |
Scott Hutchins
Scott Hutchins (born 1974) is an American novelist and short story writer. Biography Scott Hutchins is an American novelist and short-story writer. A native of Arkansas, he was awarded a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University. His work has appeared in StoryQuarterly, Five Chapters, The Owls, The Rumpus, The New York Times, San Francisco Magazine and Esquire Magazine. His debut novel A debut novel is the first novel a novelist publishes. Debut novels are often the author's first opportunity to make an impact on the publishing industry, and thus the success or failure of a debut novel can affect the ability of the author to p ... ''A Working Theory of Love'' has been called both "revelatory and exciting" and "ambitious and accomplished." He currently holds a Jones Lectureship in Stanford's creative writing program. Bibliography ''A Working Theory of Love'' References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hutchins, Scott 1974 births Living people 21st-century American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan Harty
Ryan Harty is an American writer. His first book, '' Bring Me Your Saddest Arizona'', was published in 2003 by University of Iowa Press. He is married to fellow writer Julie Orringer. Overview Harty grew up in Arizona and northern California and is a graduate of UC Berkeley and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and the recipient of a Henfield-Transatlantic Review Award. His stories have appeared in ''Tin House'' and ''The Missouri Review ''The Missouri Review'' is a literary magazine founded in 1978 by the University of Missouri. It publishes fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction quarterly. With its open submission policy, ''The Missouri Review'' receives 12,000 manuscripts ...'' and have been anthologized in ''The 2003 Pushcart Prize'' and ''The Best American Short Stories 2003''. Literary works * This book contains eight short stories: ** What Can I Tell You about My Brother? ** Ongchoma ** Between Tubac and Tumacacori ** Cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Barbash
Tom Barbash is an American writer of fiction and nonfiction, as well as an educator and critic. He is the author of the novel ''The Last Good Chance,'' a collection of short stories ''Stay Up With Me,'' and the bestselling nonfiction work ''On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick & 9/11: A Story of Loss & Renewal''. His fiction has been published in ''Tin House'', ''Story'' magazine, ''The Virginia Quarterly Review'' and ''The Indiana Review''. His criticism has appeared in the ''New York Times'' and the ''San Francisco Chronicle''. A well-regarded speaker, panelist, and interviewer, Barbash has served as host for onstage events for The Commonwealth Club, Litquake, BookPassage, and the Lannan Foundation, and his interview subjects have included ''Kazuo Ishiguro'', '' Brett Easton Ellis'', ''Jonathan Franzen'', '' Carlos Ruiz Zafon'', ''James Ellroy'', '' Ann Packer'', ''Mary Gaitskill'', and '' Chuck Palahniuk''. He taught at Stanford University, where he was a S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
