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Frances Steloff Lecture

 

 

Jonathan Franzen Lecturing to Crowd
The Steloff Lecture

Over fifty years, the Lecture has brought some of the best literary and artistic talent to campus, including Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Laureates, as well as almost a dozen Pulitzer- and Booker Prize-winners. Previous Steloff honorees have included Louise Glück, Mario Vargas Llosa, J. M. Coetzee, Saul Bellow, Nadine Gordimer, Chinua Achebe, Martha Graham, Seamus Heaney, Anais Nin, Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Arthur Miller, Gwendolyn Brooks, Zadie Smith, and Jonathan Franzen. 

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Darryl Pinckney
2024 Lecturer
Darryl Pinckney
Darryl Pinckney is a long-time contributor to The New York Review of Books, the author of two novels, "High Cotton" (1992) and "Black Deutschland" (2016), and several works of nonfiction, including "Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature" (2002), "Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy" (2014), and "Busted in New York and Other Essays" (2019). 

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Frances Steloff with Granville Hicks
History of the Steloff Lecture
Since 1967, the annual Steloff Lecture has brought outstanding literary and artistic talent to Skidmore College. Endowed by Frances Steloff, a native of Saratoga Springs, who founded the legendary Gotham Book Mart in New York City, the Lecture continues Miss Steloff’s generosity and friendship to numerous authors.

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