This course offered by the English Department features ten acclaimed writers who come to campus to meet with students and to offer public readings.
Colgate University English Department
Hadley is the author of three highly praised novels, Accidents in the Home, which was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, Everything Will Be All Right, and The Master Bedroom.
Ravenhill is a British playwright, actor and journalist best known for the plays Shopping & F***ing, Some Explicit Polaroids, and Mother Clapp’s Molly House.
Hwang's short story collection, Transparency, won the American Academy of Arts and Letters’s Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and a PEN/Beyond Margins Award.
Balakian, a Colgate professor, is the author of many books including a new book of poems, Ziggurat, as well as June-tree: New and Selected Poems, 1974-2000.
V. S. Naipaul has published more than twenty books of fiction and nonfiction, including A House for Mr. Biswas, In a Free State (winner of the 1971 Booker Prize), and A Bend in the River.
The author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, which became an international bestseller, reads from his work.
The author of Sightseeing was chosen for the National Book Foundation's inaugural "5 Under 35" program.
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