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.