Cornell Writers

[Dave Monroe]

Junot Diaz visit to open Cornell writing celebration
By Daniel Aloi • Cornell News Service • January 24, 2009


Novelist Junot D(hearts)az, M.F.A. '95, will visit Cornell in February
for the first time since winning the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for fiction
for "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao."

His two-day visit will open "The Centennial Plus Five Celebration of
Creative Writing at Cornell," a series of events in 2009 highlighting
Cornell writers and their work.

D(hearts)az, a professor of creative writing at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and fiction editor of Boston Review, will be
presented with the Cornell Council for the Arts' annual William
Eissner Artist of the Year Award and will give a reading at 4:30 p.m.,
Feb. 19 at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. A reception and
dinner will also be held.

[...]

Other events include a March 4 "Cornell Scholars on Cornell Writers"
panel, discussing the works of A.R. Ammons, Thomas Pynchon, Manuel
Muñoz and others; two community readings by more than 40 local
writers, March 26 and Oct. 22 at Ithaca's State Theatre; and a
publication party April 2 for new books by faculty members J. Robert
Lennon, Kenneth McClane, Jonathan Monroe and Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon.
All events will be free and open to the public.

[...]

Cornell first offered creative writing courses in 1905 as part of the
English department curriculum. Since then, the university has counted
many literary greats among its faculty and former students, including
Pynchon, Ammons, E.B. White, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Vladimir Nabokov,
Lorrie Moore and Susan Choi; Pulitzer Prize winners D(hearts)az and
Alison Lurie; and Nobel laureates Toni Morrison and Pearl S. Buck. For
a complete list, visit http://www.writers.cornell.edu.

http://www.theithacajournal.com/article/20090124/LIFESTYLE/901240313

For more than a century, some of the most distinguished writers in
American letters have studied or taught at Cornell University in
Ithaca, New York. This site lists more than two hundred Cornell
novelists, short-story writers, poets, memoirists, and other creative
writers (including current M.F.A. program faculty members) along with
other information and links of interest to readers and scholars.

http://www.writers.cornell.edu/