2023: Singing America: A Celebration of Black Literature
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John Hersey Memorial Address: Kevin Young
Presenters: Jabari Asim, Jericho Brown, S.A. Cosby, Sika Dagbovie-Mullins, Tananarive Due, Cornelius Eady, Ashley C. Ford, Regis M. Fox, Megan Giddings, Annette Gordon-Reed, Nadege Green, Kerri Greenidge, Tyehimba Jess, Tayari Jones, Victor LaValle, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Deesha Philyaw, Emily Raboteau, Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Laura Warrell, Jacqueline Woodson, and Kevin Young
Special Guests: Shavers Family, Ambassador Chorale
Writers’ Workshop Faculty: Joy Castro, Peter Ho Davies, Cornelius Eady, Tyehimba Jess, Marjan Kamali, Dantiel W. Moniz, Roxana Robinson, and Luis Alberto Urrea
2022: A Seminar Named Desire
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John Hersey Memorial Address: Lauren Groff
Presenters: Jami Attenberg, Judy Blume, Jericho Brown, Michael Carroll, Billy Collins, Lauren Groff, Joyce Maynard, Colum McCann, Eileen Myles, Tom Perrotta, Deesha Philyaw, Jamie Quatro, Zak Salih, Lisa Taddeo, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, and Edmund White
Writers’ Workshop Faculty: Lynne Reeves Griffin, Ishion Hutchinson, Joyce Maynard, Liz Moore, Beth Nguyen, Porter Shreve, David Treuer, and Laura van den Berg
2020: Reading Between the Lines: Sports and Literature
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John Hersey Memorial Address: Geoff Dyer
Presenters: Megan Abbot, Amy Bass, Buzz Bissinger, Daniel James Brown, Analise Chen, Billy Collins, Geoff Dyer, Paul Goldberger, Gish Jen, Jane Leavy, David Maraniss, Ben McGrath, Michael Mewshaw, Emily Nemens, Joyce Carol Oates, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Arnold Rampersad, Leanne Shapton, Lionel Shriver, Louisa Thomas, Kate Tuttle, and Kevin Young
Writers’ Workshop Faculty: Christopher Castellani, Billy Collins, Fernanda Eberstadt, Lynne Griffin, Lauren Groff, Claire Messud, Gregory Pardlo, Francine Prose, Krystal Sital, and Luis Alberto Urrea
2019: Under the Influence: Archetype and Adaptation
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John Hersey Memorial Address: Margaret Atwood
Presenters: Margaret Atwood, Geraldine Brooks, Meg Cabot, Joseph Cassara, Nicole Galland, Victor LaValle, Valerie Martin, Michael Mewshaw, Madeline Miller, Naomi Novik, Joyce Carol Oates, Danielle Paige, Dexter Palmer, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Eric Shanower, Kate Tuttle, Stephanie Powell Watts, Emily Wilson, and Kevin Young
Writers’ Workshop Faculty: John Dufresne, Daniel Menaker, Gregory Pardlo, Emily Raboteau, Richard Russo, Katrin Schumann, Dara Wier, Joy Williams, and Kevin Young
2018: Writers of the Caribbean
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John Hersey Memorial Address: Jamaica Kincaid
Presenters: André Alexis, Robert Antoni, Madison Smartt Bell, Teju Cole, Edwidge Danticat, Nicole Dennis-Benn, Brent Hayes Edwards, Jonathan Galassi, Ishion Hutchinson, Naomi Jackson, Marlon James, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, Jamaica Kincaid, Anna Kushner, Kei Miller, Mirta Ojito, Leonardo Padura, Caryl Phillips, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Esmeralda Santiago, Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw, and Tiphanie Yanique
Writers’ Workshop Faculty: Madison Smartt Bell, Billy Collins, Manuel Gonzales, Naomi Jackson, Daniel Menaker, Kate Moses, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Joy Williams, and Lisa Zeidner
2017: Revealing Power: The Literature of Politics
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John Hersey Memorial Address: Robert A. Caro
Presenters: Ann Beattie, Robert A. Caro, Stephen L. Carter, Teju Cole, Gail Collins, Billy Collins, Deborah Eisenberg, Garrett Epps, Annette Gordon-Reed, Joe Klein, Rachel Kushner, Thomas Mallon, Jane Mayer, Joyce Carol Oates, Peter S. Onuf, George Saunders, Curtis Sittenfeld, Calvin Trillin, and Brenda Wineapple
Writers’ Workshop Faculty: Jennine Capó Crucet, Billy Collins, Marie Myung-Ok Lee, Michael Maren, Daniel Menaker, Kate Moses, Micol Ostow, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, and Dani Shapiro
2016: Shorts: Stories, Essays, and Other Briefs
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John Hersey Memorial Address: Junot Díaz and Hilton Als
Presenters: Hilton Als, Molly Antopol, Ann Beattie, Billy Collins, Junot Díaz, Gish Jen, Victor LaValle, Yiyun Li, Kelly Link, Harry Mathews, Thomas McGuane, Daniel Menaker, Antonya Nelson, Claudia Rankine, Ron Rash, Karen Russell, Jim Shepard, Brad Watson, Joy Williams, and Kevin Young
Writers’ Workshop Faculty: Diana Abu-Jaber, Ann Beattie, Billy Collins, Kristen-Paige Madonia, Daniel Menaker, Campbell McGrath, Antonya Nelson, Susan Shreve, and Kevin Young
2015: How the Light Gets In: Literature of the Spirit
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John Hersey Memorial Address: Pico Iyer
Presenters: A. Manette Ansay, Coleman Barks, Billy Collins, Mark Doty, Patricia Hampl, Jane Hirshfield, Marie Howe, Pico Iyer, Charles Johnson, Wally Lamb, Barry Lopez, Marilyn Nelson, Mary Rose O’Reilley, Robert D. Richardson, Marilynne Robinson, and Steve Stern
Writers’ Workshop Faculty: Paulette Alden, Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew, A. Manette Ansay, Billy Collins, Mark Doty, Jane Hirshfield, Daniel Menaker, Mary Morris, Marilyn Nelson, Susan Richards Shreve, and Lee Smith
2014: The Dark Side: Mystery, Crime, and the Literary Thriller
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John Hersey Memorial Address: Sara Paretsky (First Session) & Elizabeth George (Second Session)
Presenters: Megan Abbott, John Banville, Alafair Burke, Stephen L. Carter, Lee Child, Billy Collins, Michael Connelly, Thomas H. Cook, Percival Everett, Lyndsay Faye, Gillian Flynn, Elizabeth George, Tess Gerritsen, William Gibson, James Gleick, Sara Gran, James W. Hall, Carl Hiaasen, Joseph Kanon, John Katzenbach, Michael Koryta, William Kent Krueger, Laura Lippman, Attica Locke, Mary Morris, Malla Nunn, Joyce Carol Oates, Sara Paretsky, Otto Penzler, John Sandford, Jonathan Santlofer, Alexander McCall Smith, Les Standiford, Scott Turow, and Lisa Unger
Writers’ Workshop Faculty: Paulette Alden, Madeleine Blais, Billy Collins, James W. Hall, E.J. Miller Laino, Beverly Lowry, Daniel Menaker, Mary Morris, Porter Shreve, Susan Richards Shreve, and Dara Wier
2013: Writers on Writers
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John Hersey Memorial Address: Phyllis Rose (First Session) & Colm Tóibín (Second Session)
Presenters: Paul Alexander, James Atlas, Blake Bailey, Rosalind Brackenbury, Billy Collins, Mark Doty, Geoff Dyer, Jennie Fields, Brad Gooch, Lyndall Gordon, Claire Harman, Paul Hendrickson, Pico Iyer, Joyce Johnson, Christopher Lydon, Paul Mariani, D.T. Max, Michael Mewshaw, Kate Moses, Ann Napolitano, Jay Parini, Robert D. Richardson, Phyllis Rose, Julie Salamon, Alexandra Styron, Judith Thurman, Colm Tóibín, Edmund White, and Brenda Wineapple
Writers’ Workshop Faculty: Paulette Bates Alden, Billy Collins, Jane Hirshfield, Daniel Menaker, Mary Morris, Jay Parini, Robert D. Richardson, Dara Wier, Brenda Wineapple, and Hilma Wolitzer
2012: Yet Another World: Literature of the Future
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John Hersey Memorial Conversation: Douglas Coupland and William Gibson
Presenters: Margaret Atwood, Billy Collins, Douglas Coupland, Michael Cunningham, Jennifer Egan, Rivka Galchen, William Gibson, James Gleick, Robert Krulwich, Jonathan Lethem, Janna Levin, Valerie Martin, China Miéville, Joyce Carol Oates, Dexter Palmer, George Saunders, Gary Shteyngart, James Tate, Colson Whitehead, and Charles Yu
Writers’ Workshop Faculty: Paulette Bates Alden, Margaret Atwood, Billy Collins, Valerie Martin, Mary Morris, Lee Smith, Robert Stone, and Dara Wier
2011: The Hungry Muse: An Exploration of Food in Literature
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John Hersey Memorial Address: Ruth Reichl (First Session) & Adam Gopnik (Second Session)
Presenters: Diana Abu-Jaber, Elizabeth Berg, Roy Blount Jr., Frank Bruni, Kate Christensen, Billy Collins, John T. Edge, Jason Epstein, Jonathan Gold, Darra Goldstein, Adam Gopnik, Gael Greene, Jane Hirshfield, Madhur Jaffrey, Judith Jones, Mark Kurlansky, David Mas Masumoto, Harry Mathews, Nicole Mones, Bich Minh Nguyen, Molly O’Neill, Julia Reed, Ruth Reichl, Michael Ruhlman, Patrick Symmes, Calvin Trillin, and Kevin Young
Writers’ Workshop Faculty: Paulette Bates Alden, Alan Cheuse, Billy Collins, Jane Hirshfield, Connie Regan-Blake, Porter Shreve, Susan Shreve, Robert Stone, Dara Wier, and Hilma Wolitzer
2010: Clearing the Sill of the World: a celebration of 60 years of American Poetry
In honor of Richard Wilbur
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John Hersey Memorial Address: Robert Pinsky
Presenters: Todd Boss, Robert Casper, Billy Collins, Kirby Congdon, Erica Dawson, Rita Dove, Rhina P. Espaillat, Rachel Hadas, Matthea Harvey, Jane Hirshfield, Yusef Komunyakaa, Maxine Kumin, Paul Muldoon, Robert Pinsky, Kay Ryan, Harvey Shapiro, Timothy Steele, Mark Strand, James Tate, Natasha Trethewey, and Richard Wilbur
Writers’ Workshop Faculty: Todd Boss, Billy Collins, Jane Hirshfield, Yusef Komunyakaa, E.J. Miller Laino, Valerie Martin, and Dara Wier
2009: Historical Fiction and the Search for Truth
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John Hersey Memorial Address: Geraldine Brooks (First Session) & Barry Unsworth (Second Session)
Presenters: Chantel Acevedo, Calvin Baker, Russell Banks, Andrea Barrett, Madison Smartt Bell, Geraldine Brooks, Alan Cheuse, Peter Ho Davies, Eric Foner, Elizabeth Gaffney, Francisco Goldman, Allan Gurganus, Ursula Hegi, Samantha Hunt, Jane Kamensky, William Kennedy, Rachel Kushner, Jill Lepore, David Levering Lewis, Thomas Mallon, Megan Marshall, Valerie Martin, Peter Matthiessen, Ivy Meeropol, Michael Meeropol, Anchee Min, Mary Morris, David Nasaw, Sena Jeter Naslund, Patricia O’Toole, Joyce Carol Oates, Marilynne Robinson, John Burnham Schwartz, Barry Unsworth, Gore Vidal, Hilma Wolitzer, and John Wray
Writers’ Workshop Faculty: Alan Cheuse, Billy Collins, Edward Hower, Alison Lurie, Mary Morris, Bich Minh Nguyen, Patricia O’Toole, Porter Shreve, Dara Wier, and Hilma Wolitzer
2008: New Voices
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John Hersey Memorial Address: Mark Doty (First Session) & Lee Smith (Second Session)
Presenters: Gigi Amateau, Ann Beattie, Judy Blume, Tina Chang, Billy Collins, Trevor Corson, Junot Díaz, Annie Dillard, Mark Doty, Nell Freudenberger, James Gleick, Terrance Hayes, Mary Hays, Silas House, Uzodinma Iweala, Tayari Jones, Janna Levin, Carolyn Mackler, Vestal McIntyre, Daniel Menaker, Bich Minh Nguyen, Manuel Muñoz, Maggie Nelson, Meghan O’Rourke, Hannah Pittard, Connie Regan-Blake, Robert D. Richardson, Patrick Ryan, Timothy Seldes, Brenda Shaughnessy, Porter Shreve, Susan Shreve, Jake Silverstein, Lee Smith, Robert Stone, Edmund White, Dara Wier, Hilma Wolitzer, and Kevin Young
Writers’ Workshop Faculty: Billy Collins, Trevor Corson, Bich Minh Nguyen, Connie Regan-Blake,Timothy Seldes, Porter Shreve, Susan Shreve, Lee Smith, Robert Stone, Dara Wier, and Hilma Wolitzer
2007: Wondrous Strange: Mystery, Intrigue, and Psychological Drama
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Moderators: Rosalind Brackenbury, Mary Morris, Michael Wood
John Hersey Memorial Address: Michael Wood
Presenters: Margaret Atwood, Paul Auster, Aimee Bender, Michael Cunningham, Tananarive Due, Jeffrey Eugenides, Siri Hustvedt, Wally Lamb, Ian McEwan, Joyce Carol Oates, Steve Stern, Amy Tan, James Tate, and Mary Kay Zuravleff
Writers’ Workshop Faculty: Paulette Bates Alden, Billy Collins, Mary Morris, Bich Minh Nguyen, Timothy Seldes, Porter Shreve, and Susan Shreve
2006: The Literature of Adventure, Travel, and Discovery
Moderators: Patricia Hampl and Michael Shapiro
John Hersey Memorial Address: Pico Iyer
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Presenters: Rosalind Brackenbury, Tim Cahill, Billy Collins, Hal Crowther, Hanns Ebensten, Gretel Ehrlich, Linda Greenlaw, Eddy L. Harris, Tony Horwitz, Pico Iyer, Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, Ana Menéndez, Michael Mewshaw, Lawrence Millman, Mary Morris, Dervla Murphy, Kira Salak, Robert Stone, Patrick Symmes, and Kate Wheeler
Writers’ Workshop Faculty: Billy Collins, Bich Minh Nguyen, Timothy Seldes, Porter Shreve, and Susan Shreve
2005: Humor
Master of Ceremonies: Michael Rosen (First Session) & Patricia Marx (Second Session)
John Hersey Memorial Address: Billy Collins (First Session) & Calvin Trillin (Second Session)
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Presenters: Dave Barry, Paul Beatty, Roy Blount Jr., Judy Blume, Blanche McCrary Boyd, Christopher Buckley, Augusten Burroughs, Billy Collins, Christopher Durang, Clyde Edgerton, Barbara Ehrenreich, Nora Ephron, Percival Everett, Bruce Jay Friedman, Carl Hiaasen, Molly Ivins, Alison Lurie, Lorrie Moore, Ruth Ozeki, ZZ Packer, Roger Rosenblatt, Cathleen Schine, Lee Smith, James Tate, Calvin Trillin, Garry Trudeau, Wendy Wasserstein, Meg Wolitzer, and Al Young
Writers’ Workshop Faculty: Paulette Bates Alden, Blanche McCrary Boyd, Billy Collins, Jane Hirshfield, Bich Minh Nguyen, Timothy Seldes, Porter Shreve, and Susan Shreve
2004: Crossing Borders: The Immigrant Voice in American Literature
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John Hersey Memorial Address: Bharati Mukherjee
Moderators: Morris Dickstein, Patricia Hampl, Katherine Lanpher
Presenters: Elmaz Abinader, Clark Blaise, Robert Olen Butler, Lan Cao, Sandra Cisneros, Andrei Codrescu, Junot Diaz, Cristina Garcia, Francisco Goldman, Aleksandar Hemon, Eva Hoffman, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, David Wong Louie, Bharati Mukherjee, Elizabeth Nuñez, and Amy Tan
Writers’ Workshop Faculty: Judith Kazantzis, E.J. Miller Laino, Bich Minh Nguyen, Timothy Seldes, Porter Shreve, and Susan Shreve
2003: Poetry: The Beautiful Changes
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John Hersey Memorial Address: Derek Walcott
Presenters: Kim Addonizio, John Ashbery, Lucille Clifton, Billy Collins, Robert Creeley, Martín Espada, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Carolyn Forché, Forrest Gander, Dan Gerber, Jane Hirshfield, Dorianne Laux, Semezdin Mehmedinovic, Sharon Olds, Charles Simic, James Tate, Quincy Troupe, Derek Walcott, Richard Wilbur, C. D. Wright
Workshop Faculty: Paulette Bates Alden, Alan Cheuse, Sam Hamill, Judith Kazantzis, E.J. Miller Laino, Judith Minty, and Rebecca Seiferle
2002: Spirit of Place
John Hersey Memorial Address: Peter Matthiessen
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Presenters: Dorothy Allison, Russell Banks, John Barth, Hal Crowther, Chitra Divakaruni, Wilma Dykeman, Richard Ford, Dagoberto Gilb, Allan Gurganus, Kent Haruf, Carl Hiaasen, Linda Hogan, James D. Houston, William Kittredge, Maxine Kumin, Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, Valerie Miner, Gloria Naylor, Howard Norman, Michael Ondaatje, Jay Parini, Annie Proulx, Robert Richardson, Mona Simpson, Rebecca Seiferle, Annick Smith, Lee Smith, Linda Spalding, Deanne Urmy, Joan Williams, and Joy Williams
Writers’ Workshop Faculty: Paulette Bates Alden, Madeleine Blais, Merrill Joan Gerber, Valerie Miner, Rebecca Seiferle, Timothy Seldes, and Susan Shreve
2001: Science and Literature: Narratives of Discovery
John Hersey Memorial Address: Stephen Jay Gould
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Presenters: Natalie Angier, Carl Djerassi, Barbara Ehrenreich, Timothy Ferris, Ira Flatow, Robin Fox, Murray Gell-Mann, James Gleick, Stephen Jay Gould, Roald Hoffmann, Sue Hubbell, Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan, Dava Sobel, Marcia Southwick, Steven Weinberg, and Jonathan Weiner
Writers’ Workshop Faculty: Paulette Bates Alden, Alan Cheuse, Lee Gutkind, Richard Panek, Timothy Seldes, and Susan Shreve
2000: The Memoir
John Hersey Memorial Address: Frank McCourt
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Presenters: Russell Baker, Madeleine Blais, Rosemary Bray, Marie Chaix, Walter de Milly, Nancy Friday, Patricia Hampl, Eddy L. Harris, Lorian Hemingway, Joyce Maynard, Frank McCourt, Anchee Min, Jane O’Reilly, Katherine Russell Rich, Wilfrid Sheed, Calvin Trillin, Geoffrey Wolff, Tobias Wolff, and William Wright
Writers’ Workshop Faculty: Paulette Bates Alden, Madeleine Blais, Beverly Lowry, Jane O’Reilly, Timothy Seldes, and Lou Willett Stanek
1999: The American Novel
John Hersey Memorial Address: E.L. Doctorow
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Presenters: E.L. Doctorow, Morgan Entrekin, Joseph Heller, Jamaica Kincaid, Alison Lurie, Harry Mathews, Peter Matthiessen, Joyce Carol Oates, Faith Sale, Susan Shreve, Robert Stone, Amy Tan, John Edgar Wideman, and Hilma Wolitzer
Writers’ Workshop Faculty: Harry Mathews, Hilma Wolitzer, Susan Shreve, and Irving Weinman
1998: Once Upon A Time: Children’s Literature in the Late 20th Century
John Hersey Memorial Address: E.L. Konigsburg
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Presenters: Arnold Adoff, Judy Blume, Joseph Bruchac, Laurent de Brunhoff, Bruce Coville, Paula Danziger, Virginia Hamilton, Richard Jackson, Elizabeth Keyser, E.L. Konigsburg, Lois Kuznets, Eden Ross Lipson, Perry Nodelman, Richard Peck, Jerry Pinkney, Rosemary Wells, Nancy Willard, and Jane Yolen
Writers’ Workshop Faculty: Judy Blume, Joseph Bruchac, Bruce Coville, Richard Jackson, Richard Peck, Jerry Pinkney, and Nancy Willard
1997: Literature in the Age of AIDS
John Hersey Memorial Address: Edmund White
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Presenters: Ann Beattie, David Bergman, Michael Bronski, Rebecca Brown, Rafael Campo, Robert Dawidoff, Michael Denneny, Mark Doty, Christine Downing, Jewelle Gomez, Rachel Hadas, Andrew Holleran, Diane Johnson, Larry Kramer, Tony Kushner, David Leavitt, Dale Peck, Patricia Powell, Frank Rich, Benjamin Saenz, Sarah Schulman, Abraham Verghese, David Wagoner, and Edmund White
Writers’ Workshop Faculty: David Bergman, Rafael Campo, Christine Downing, Jewelle Gomez, and Sarah Schulman
1996: American Writers and the Natural World
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John Hersey Memorial Address: Annie Dillard
Presenters: Rick Bass, Annie Dillard, Gretel Ehrlich, Jim Harrison, Linda Hogan, Thomas McGuane, Richard K. Nelson, John Nichols, Doug Peacock, Robert D. Richardson, Jr., Frederick Turner, James Welch, Joy Williams, and Terry Tempest Williams
Writers’ Workshop Faculty: Marie Cosindas, Robert Haru Fisher,David Kaufelt, Judith Kazantzis and Judith Minty
1995: Journalism
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Presenters: Madeline Blais, Philip Caputo, Barbara Ehrenreich, Linda Ellerbee, Osborn Elliott, Mark Foster Ethridge III, Fred Friendly, David Halberstam, Pete Hamill, Louis Harris, Seymour Hersh, David Lawrence Jr., John Naisbitt, Jane O’Reilly, Anna Quindlen, and Brent Staples
Writers’ Workshop Faculty: Madeleine Blais, Jane O’Reilly and Mary Lee Settle
1994: Biography and Autobiography
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Presenters: Shana Alexander, A. Scott Berg, Carol Brightman, Chris Chase, Blanche Wiesen Cook, Vivian Gornick, Justin Kaplan, David McCullough, Nancy Milford, James Merrill, Phyllis Rose, Edmund White, Geoffrey Wolff, and William Wright
Writers’ Workshop Faculty: A. Scott Berg, Vivian Gornick, and Phillip A. Marcus
1993: The Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop
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Presenters: Frank Bidart, John Malcolm Brinnin, Robert Giroux, Lorrie Goldensohn, Elizabeth Hardwick, Anthony Hecht, J.D. McClatchy, James Merrill, Barbara Page, Octavio Paz, Alice Quinn, Mary Jo Salter, Lloyd Schwartz, Elizabeth Spires, Mark Strand, and Richard Wilbur
Writers’ Workshop Faculty: J.D. McClatchy, Lloyd Schwartz, and Elizabeth Spires
1992: Literature and Film
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Presenters: Donald Bogle, Blythe Danner, Arlene Donovan, William Everson, Robert Geller, William Goldman, Molly Haskell, Stuart M. Kaminsky, Paul N. Lazarus III, William Rothman, Andrew Sarris, Bud Schulberg, and Robert Stone
Writers’ Workshop Faculty: Arlene Donovan and Paul N. Lazarus III
1991: Literature of Travel: A Sense of Place
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Presenters: T.D. Allman, Russell Banks, John Malcolm Brinnin, Philip Burton, Thurston Clarke, Peter Matthiessen, Gary Ross Mormino, Jan Morris, Mary Morris, Jane O’Reilly, Carolyn Bennett Patterson, Ann Peyton, Patrick Smith, Robert Stone, William Styron, Calvin Trillin, Joy Williams, and William Wright
Writers’ Workshop Faculty: Thurston Clarke, Robert C. Fisher, and Peter Matthiessen
1990: New Directions in American Theatre
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Presenters: Joanne Akalaitis, John M. Bradley, Vinnette Carroll, Constance Congdon, Jane Ann Crum, Christine Arnold Dolen, Christopher Durang, Maria Irene Fornes, John Guare, Len Jenkin, Emily Mann, Bonnie Marranca, Joseph V. Melillo, Julia Miles, Donn Murphy, Eric Overmeyer, Wendy Wasserstein, Mac Wellman, and Lanford Wilson
1989: The American Short Story: A Renaissance
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Presenters: Russell Banks, Leslie Fiedler, Doris Grumbach, Bill Henderson, Rust Hills, David Kranes, A. Walton Litz, Bobbie Ann Mason, George E. Murphy, Jr., James Nagel, Shannon Ravenel, Jane Smiley, Ted Solotaroff, Peter Taylor, John Edgar Wideman, and Joy Williams
1988: Whodunit? The Art and Tradition of Mystery Literature
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Presenters: John Ball, Howard Browne, Ray B. Browne, Matthew Bruccoli, Knox Burger, Mary Higgins Clark, James Crumley, Paul Erdman, James Wilson Hall, Carl Hiaasen, Tony Hillerman, Joan Kahn, John Katzenbach, Elmore Leonard, Dennis McMillan, Otto Penzler, Marilyn Stasio, Richard P. Sugg, Irving Weinman, Donald Westlake, Charles Willeford, and Robin W. Winks
1987: Writers and Key West
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Presenters: James Boatwright, Philip Burton, Philip Caputo, Virginia Spencer Carr, Bill Cosford, Marie Cosindas, Bonnie Costello, Scott Donaldson, Rust Hills, David A. Kaufelt, Stetson Kennedy, Alison Lurie, Thomas McGuane, Rollie McKenna, Roger McNiven, James Merrill, Jane O’Reilly, Anne Rowe, Thomas Sanchez, Richard A. Schwartz, Les Standiford, Helen Vendler, Richard Wilbur, Joy Williams, and William Wright
1986: Tennessee Williams in Key West
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Presenters: Christine Arnold, Milly S. Barranger, John Malcolm Brinnin, J. Robert Dietz, William S. Gray, Mel Gussow, Allean Hale, James Leo Herlihy, W. Kenneth Holditch, James Kirkwood, James Laughlin, Kenneth E. Moore, Jerrold Phillips, William Plumley, Peggy Prenshaw, Donald Spoto, Ertem A. Weinkopf, and Lanford Wilson
1985: Hemingway: A Moveable Feast
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Presenters: James Brasch, Philip Caputo, Scott Donaldson, Robert Gajdusek, Patrick Hemingway, Jo August Hills, Allen Josephs, Donald Junkins, Bernice Kert, Frank Laurence, Timothy O’Brien, George Plimpton, Michael Reynolds, William Robertson, Charles Scribner Jr., Joseph Sigman, Paul Smith, Robert Stone, and Linda Wagner
1984: Key West Literary Tour and Seminar
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Presenters: James Boatwright, John Malcolm Brinnin, Philip Caputo, William Grose, Nat Hentoff, Carl Hiaasen, John Katzenbach, David A. Kaufelt, Judith F. Krug, Alison Lurie, Evelyn Wilde Mayerson, James Merrill, Thomas Sanchez, Rebecca Sinkler, Alice K. Turner, and Richard Wilbur
1983: Key West Literary Tour and Seminar
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Presenters: Philip Caputo, John Ciardi, Ross Claiborne, Dick Duane, Nancy Friday, Jay Garon, Jim Harrison, Ed Hayes, David Kaufelt, Seymour Laurence, W.H. Manville, Kathryn Hall Proby, William K. Robertson, Thomas Sanchez, Harvey Shapiro, Ramona Stewart, Jack Tannen, and William Wright