Garth Greenwell
Annual Frances Steloff Lecture
Thursday, October 22, 2026 at 8 PM, Payne Room/ Tang Museum
Garth Greenwell
About Garth Greenwell
GARTH GREENWELL—novelist, literary critic, educator—is the author of three acclaimed novels and a forthcoming book of essays. The novels include “What Belongs To You” (2016), which won the British Book Award for ‘Debut of the Year’ and was said by The NY Times to be “an instant classic”; “Cleanness” (2020), a NEW YORKER ‘Best Book of the Year’; and “Small Rain” (2024), which won the PEN/FAULKNER AWARD for fiction. His essays appear in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Paris Review & other magazines. He won the 2021 Vursell Award for prose style from The American Academy of Arts & Letters, and is at present Distinguished Writer In Residence at New York University. For six years he was a student at Skidmore’s NY State Summer Writers Institute, where he later taught fiction writing for several summers.
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