Visiting Writers & Events Index

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Note: Our first website launched in the Fall 1996 season.

B

Babenco,Hector 
Bach, Steven (2007)
Baden, M.D., Michael (2001)
Bailey, Frankie Y. (2014)
Bair, Deirdre 
Baker, Russell (2002)
Ballard, Allen B. (2010)
Ballester, Gonzalo Torrente (2011)
Bambara, Toni Cade 
Banfield, Ashleigh (2017)
Bank, Melissa (1999)
Banks, Russell (2008) / (2017)
Barbash, Tom (2002)
Barlow, Judith E. (2010)
Barnes, Julian (2006)
Barnet, Miguel 
Barrett, Andrea (2007)
Barry, Dave (2004)
Barth, John
Bateman, Justine (2018)
Bauer, Douglas (1999)
Baxter, Charles (2016)

Beah, Ishmael (2020)
Beattie, Ann (1999) / (2015)
Beckwith, Jon (2003)
Bell, Madison Smartt (2004)
Bell, Marvin (2003)
Bellow, Saul
Belton, Danielle (2018)
Benedict, Elizabeth (2007)
Benson, Cara (2006)
Bensen, Robert
Berendt, John (2006)
Berge, Catherine
Berger, Alan L. (1998)

Berger, Mark (2019)
Berkowitz, Joel (2007)

Bernard, Emily (2016)
Bernstein, Carl
Bernstein, Charles
Beyala, Calixthre
Biancolli, Amy (2014)
Bidart, Frank (2008)
Binyan, Liu
Bitov, Andrei
Bitsui, Sherwin (2016)
Bittman, Mark (2015)
Black Arts & Hip Hop Conference (2000)
Blackjack (1999)
Blackmon, Douglas (2009)
The Black Swan (1996)
Blaise, Clark (2001)
Blaser, Robin
Blight, David W. (2012)
Blokh, Alexandre 
Bloom, Amy (1997)
Bloom, Harold (1995)
Blumer, Ronald (2008)
Boggs, J. S. G. (2000) 
Bogosian, Eric (2005)
Bohjalian, Chris (2013)
Boland, Eavan 
Borovski, Natasha
Bowser, Samuel (2010)
Boyd, Blanche McCrary (1999)
Boyers, Peg (2015)

Boyers, Robert (2019)
Boyle, T.C. (2003 / 2013 / 2019)
Brackenbury, Rosalind 
Brackman, Jacob 
Bradford, Arthur (2005)
Branch, Taylor (1991 / 2006)
Branco, Rosa Alice (2018)

10 Brecht Poems (2004)
Braschi, Giannina (2012)
Brinkley, Alan 2011)

Brinkley, Douglas (1998 / 2017)
Brazilian Poets
Bromige, David 
Broner, E. M. 
Brock-Broido, Lucie 
Brooks, Gwendolyn 
Brossard, Nichole (1986)
Brown, Langdon (2004)
Bruchac, Joe
Bruck, Connie (1991)
Bruneti, Almir
Bryll, Ernest
Bryson, Bill (2013)
Buch, Rene
Buchanan, Andrea (2018)
Burger, Edward B. (2005)
Burns, Edward (2015)
Burt, Stephen (2016)
Bukiet, Melvin (1998)
Bunn, Austin (2014)
Burian, Grayce (2014)
Burian, Jarka (2000)
Burian Lecture Series
Burns, Edward (1998)
Burnett, Charles 
Burrows, Vinie
Burton, Susan (2018)
Busch, Frederick (2001)
Business of Writing (1996)
Butler, Robert Olen 
Byrd, Donald

D

Dabashi, Hamid (2007)
Dagerman, Lo (2013)
Daley, David (2017)
Dance, Daryl Cumber (2002)
Danny Kaye: Supreme Court Jester (2001)
Danticat, Edwidge (2004)(2020)
Dao, Bei (2001)
Darnton, John (2005)

Dark Money (Film; 2019)
Davidson, Peter
Davis, Bill C. (2002)
Davis, Kathryn
Davis, Lydia (2014)
Eugenio de Andrade
Dee, Ruby (2005)
de Freitus, Lima
Deguy, Michel
Delaney, Frank (2009)

Delany, Samuel (2019)
Delbanco, Nicholas (2008)

DeLillo, Don (1997)
Dennehy, Brian (2007)
D'Erasmo, Stacey (2009)
Dery, Mark (2003)
Desai, Anita
De Seve, Stephen
Desnoes, Edmundo
Dev-Sen, Nabaneeta
Dexter, Pete (2005)
Di, Xue (2000)
Díaz, Junot (2012)
Dike, Fatima
The Doctor Stories (2004)
Doctorow, E. L. (2014)
Domingo, Colman (2014)
Dongala, Emmanuel (2001)
Donoghue, Denis
Dorris, Michael

Doty, Mark (2001)
Dove, Rita (2004)
Dowd, Maureen (2011)
Dowling, Robert M. (2016)
Doyle, Roddy (2004)
Dreaming Emmett
Dreyfuss, Richard (2010)
Drew, George (2012)
Drexler, K. Eric (2013)
Driver, Dorothy (2012)
Dubus IIl, Andre (2008)
Duhigg Charles (2016)
Dunn, Stephen (2001)
Dunne, Sean (2015)
Durang, Christopher (2014)
Durcan, Paul (2002)
Dyer, Geoff (2004)

F

Fadiman, Anne (2016)
Fagan, Frank (1997)
Fagan, Garth (2018)
Fainlight, Ruth
Fair, Eric (2017)

Fajardo-Anstine, Kali (2020)
Fallows, James (1991)
Farah, Nuruddin
Farhan, Rana (2013)
Farley, Anthony Paul (2017)
Farrell, Winston
Farinella, Matteo (2017) 
Faulkner, Donald W.
The FBI in Action Radio Drama (2004)
Federman, Raymond
Federspiel, Jurg
Feiffer, Jules (2010)

Feldman, Jane (2005)

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Fengxi, Bai

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence (1994)
Fernández, Roberta 
Ferré, Rosario
Ferrini, Henry (2003)
Ferris, Timothy (1991)
Filkins, Dexter (2008)

Findikyan, Kristina (2017)
Fink, Sheri (2016)
Finkel, David (2014)
Fischkin, Barbara (1997)
Fisher, Allen (1998)
Fisher, Harrison
FitzGerald, Frances (1991 / 1999)

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Flanagan, Thomas (2003)

Fleischner, Jennifer (2003)

Flynn, Nick (2004)
Flynn, Raymond (1997)
Foer, Franklin (2017)
Foner, Eric (1991)
Foote, Horton (2006)
Foote, Shelby (1997)
Forché, Carolyn (2014)
Ford, Richard (1995 & 2007)
Frank, Joachim (2018)
Frazier, Ian (2011)
Freedman, Samuel (2005)
Fuentes, Norberto (2010)
Fugs, The (2003)
Fulton, Alice (2008)

H

Hacker, Marilyn 
Hackett Fischer, David (2008)
Hagedorn, Jessica (2004)
Hagopian, Kevin
Haigh, Jennifer (2016)
Haizlip, Shirlee Taylor (1996)
Halberstam, David (2000)
Hall. Donald (2000)
Hall, Kermit L. (2005)
Hall IIl, Oakley (2006)
Hallberg, Garth Risk (2016)
Hallie, Philip
Halpern, Daniel
Hamilton, Jane (2007)
Hamilton, Tanya (2015)
Hammer, Lou
Hamill, Pete (2002)
Hammond, Dosier 
Hanley, David
Hansen, Bibbe (2018)
Hanson, Peter (2001)
Harding, Paul (2018)
Hardwick, Elizabeth
Harjo, Joy (2012)
Harris, Daniel
Harrison, Jim (2002)
Harryman, Carla

Hart, James (2017)
Hart, Steve (2001)

Hartman, Geoffrey

Hartman, Steven (2013)
Harty, Ryan (2003)
Haskell, Molly
Hatcher, Jeffrey
Haydar, Mona (2018)
Heaney, Seamus
Hedges, Chris (2007)
Hegedus, Chris (1998)
Heffner, Alexander (2018)
Hegi, Ursula (2004)
Heim, Michael
Heller, Joseph
Heller, Michael

Helgesen, Sally (2019)
Helprin, Mark
Hempel, Amy (2006)
Henderson, Bill (1996)
Henderson, Mary C. (2004)
Hendrick, George
Henrietta Szold: Woman of Valor (2000)
Herrick, William (1998)
Herrin, Lamar
Hewitt, Christopher
Heyen, William
Hilberg, Raul
Hildreth, Anne M.
Hill, Carol De Chellis
Hill, Mars (1998)
Hinojosa, Maria (2017)

Hirsch, Edward (2001)
Hitt, Jack (2004)
Hoberman, J. (2012)
Hodgman, John (2005)
Hogan, Linda
Ho Davies, Peter (2017)
Holland, Merlin (1999)
Holloway, Marguerite (2013)
Holman, Bob (1997)
Holocaust Perspectives (1998)

Holzer, Harold (2020)
Homa, Ava (2013)
Honen, Richard (2017)
Hood, Ann (2013)
Hooks, Bell (1996)
Horton, Randall (2016)
Horwitz, Tony (2011)
Houston, Pam (2005)
Howard, Maureen
Howard, Richard (2007)
Howe, Irving

Howe, Marie (2008) / 2012)
Howe, Marie & Sydney Lea (2013)
Howe, Susan
Howe, Tina (2000)
Hull, Akasha Gloria (2001)
HumaniTech* (2004)
Hunt, Courtney (2008)
Hunt, William
Hurston, Lucy Anne (2007)

J

Jackson, Kenneth T. (2002)
Jackson, Major (2008)
Jackson, Shelley (2005)
Jacquet, Jennifer (2015)
James, Kelvin Christopher
Jeffers, Honoreé Fanonne (2006)
Jefferson, Margo (2006)
Jen, Gish (1999) (2018) (2020)
Jess, Tyehimba (2017)
Jewish Fiction Panel (2007)

Jin, Ha (2003)
Jin, Xuefei (2003)
Johnson, Adam (2015)
Johnson, Denis (2012)
Johnson, Judith E. (2005)
Johnson, Ken (2011)
Jones, Ann (2006)
Jones, Barbara (1996)
Jones, Ben (2005)
Jones, Danielle & Kreg 

Jones, Edward P. (2007)
Jones, Gail (2002)
Jones, Jeff
Jones, Thai (2005)
Jordan, June (2001)
Jordon, Neil
Joris, Pierre (2014)
Joudah, Fady (2012)
Journalism: The State of the Art (2004)

Joyce, Michael (1997)
Julius Caesar (2015)
Junod, Tom (2015/2019)

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L

Laâbi, Abdellatif
LaBastille, Anne
LaBute, Neil (2004)
Lacy, Steve
La Farge, Paul (2012)
La Fountain-Stokes, Lawrence (2012)
Lahr, John (2014)
LaMon, Jacqueline Jones (2016)
Lang, Stephen (2018)
Lanier, Shannon (2005)

Larsen, Reif (2019)
Lasdun, James (2005 / 2009)

Lauterbach, Ann (2015)

Lazarre-White, Khary (2019)
Lea, Sydney (2000)
Lea, Sydney & Marie Howe (2013)
Leavitt, David

Leavy, Jane (2020)
LeBrun, Fred (2010)
LeBlanc, Adrian Nicole (2017)
LeDoux, Joseph (2016)
Lee, Chang-rae (2010)

Lee, Eugene (2018)
Lee, Li-Young (2008)
Lee, Spike (2005)

LeFavour, Cree (2020)
Leon-Portilla, Miguel
Leight, Warren (1998)
Leland, John (2018)
Lelyveld, Joseph (2012)
Lemann, Nicholas (1991)
Lennon, Tom
Leonard, Elmore (2001)
Lepore, Jill (2005)
Lethem, Jonathan (2013)
Levine, Philip (1996)
Levy, Norman
Levy, Steven (2012)
Lewis, Nancy (2008)
Lewis, Tom (2009)
Lewis, R. W. B. 
Lieberman, Laurence

Lifshin, Lin
Lightman, Alan (2012)
Lim, Eugene (2018)
Limerick, Patricia (1991)
Link, Jr., E. Perry
Linton, Amy (2017)
Livesey, Margot (2012)
Levitin, Alexis (2008)
Liu, Binyan
Longenbach, James (2000)
Lopate, Philip (1997)
Lorde, Audre (1991-1993)
Lourie, Richard
Lowry, Lois (2017)
Lukas, J. Anthony (1991)
LuPone, Patti (2018)
Lurie, Alison (2012)
Lynch, Daniel
Lynch, Vivian Valvano

N

Najafi, Sina
Nakell, Martin
Narcisse, Evan (2018)
Nasar, Sylvia 
Nasaw, David
Navasky, Victor
Naylor, Gloria
Nelson, Stanley
Nepo, Mark

Nepo, Mark (Spring 2019)
Nevai, Lucia

Newkirk, Pamela (2017)
Newman, Charles
New Voices 
A New York State of Mind
Ni Chuilleanain, Eilean
Nichols, Robert
Nickas, Bob
Ni Dhomhnaill, Nuala
Ningkun, Wu
Noel, Tomás Urayoán

Nonfiction: The State of the Art
Norris, Mary
Norris, Michele (2018)
Notley, Alice
Novic, Sara (2018)
Novotny, Susan
NYS Writers Institute                             25th Anniversary Celebration 
Nunez, Sigrid 
Nye, Bill

P

Packer, Tina
Packer, ZZ
Page, Jo
Paglia, Camille
Palahniuk, Chuck
Paley, Grace
Paley, Mary (2018)
Palestinian and Israeli Poetry

Panel discussion: Lessons of             Hurricane Maria (2019)
Pardlo, Gregory
Paretsky, Sara
Parks, Gordon
Parravani, Christa
Parsi, Trita
Pastan, Linda
Patton, Robert
Patrick, William

Paul, Pamela (2019)
Peck, Raoul
Peltz, James
Penn, Sean (2018)

Pennebaker, D. A. 

Peralta, Dan El-Padilla (2019)

Performing Voices of the Puerto Rican Diaspora
Perez, Hugo
Perl, Jed
Perrotta, Tom
Persico, Joseph
Peyrafitte, Nicole
Phillips, Caryl 
Phillips, Jayne Anne 
Phillips. Dennis
Piercy, Marge
Pileggi, Nicholas
Pinckney, Darryl (2007 / 2018) 
Pinker, Steven (1997 / 2019)
Pinker, Susan (2014)
Piñon, Nelida
Pinsky, Robert
Place, Judith

Plimpton, George (1999)

Pneuman, Angela (2014)
Poets in Conversation:
   Ed Hirsch, Kimiko Hahn
   and Marie Howe
Poetry in Performance
Pollitt, Katha
Poniatowska, Elena
Porter, Bern
Porter, Nancy
Portrait of Edith Wharton
Pottenger, Marty
Prado, Adelia
Pratap, Anita
Price, Richard
Prose, Francine
Proulx, E. Anne
Provensen, Alice
Pugliese, Frank
Pyke, Steve
 

Rabassa, Gregory
Rabiner, Susan
Rachlin, Nahid
Rafelson, Bob
Ragan, James
Raisman, Aly (2018)
Ramachandran, Vilayanur S. 
Rampersad, Arnold (1996)
Randall, Willard Sterne
Randers, Jorgen
Rapp, Paul
Rasula, Jed
Rather, Dan (2019)

Raworth, Tom
(Re)Building Shakespeare's Globe
Redel, Victoria
Redwood, James D.
Reeve, F. D.

Reich, Cary

Reines, Ariana 

R

Reisen, Harriet

Reiss, Mike (2019)

Reiser, Paul (2019)

Restrepo (2019)

Rev. Dr. William Barber II (2019)
Remnick, David 
Reynolds, Jason (2015)
Reyes, Rodrigo (2018)
Rhodes, Gabriel (2014)
Rhodes, Richard (1991)
Rich, Jim (2017)
Roach, Marion (2001)
Roberts, Cokie (2018)
Robinson, Phil Alden 
Robinson, Marilynne
Rock, Peter
Rodriguez, Richard

Rogan, Nini

Rooney, Andy (1995)

Rosen, Jonathan
Rosenbaum, Thane
Rosenbaum, Ron
Rosenfeld, Alvin H.
Rosenfeld, Harry (2017)
Rosner, Elizabeth
Roth, Philip
Rothberg, Jerome 
Rothberg, Helen (2018)
Row, Jess
Roy-Bhattacharya, Joydeep
Rozett, Martha
Rushdie, Salman (2018)
Russell, Karen
Russell, Kent
Russo, Richard (2016 / 2019)

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T

"Talkin' To This Chick Sippin' Magic Potion" (2019)

Tapahonso, Luci
Taraghi, Goli
Taubes, Gary
Taulbert, Clifton (1996)
Talese, Gay (1991)
Taylor, Andrew
Taylor, Jim
Teacher Man: A Tribute to Frank      McCourt
Technology Plays
Telling the Truth: A Symposium            on the Craft of Non-Fiction (1991)
Telling the Truth in a Post-Truth   World (2017)
Tengour, Habib 
Teretzky, Bert
Terkel, Studs (1998)

The Art of Songwriting (2019)
The Black Panthers: 
    Vanguard of the Revolution (2017)

The Brief Wondrous Life of              Oscar Wao

The Conversation

The First 25 Years
The Giver
The Glass Castle

The Golden Dream (Film; Spring 2019)

The Kite Runner

The Talk
The Things They Carried
Thien, Madeleine (2017)
Thompson, Hunter S. (1998)
Thompson, Lisa (200(7)
Thomson, David (2005)
Thorburn, Matthew (2008)
Thornton, Sarah
Three Cups of Tea
Tidmarch, Charles
Tillman, Lynne

Timpanelli, Gioia 

Ting, Shu

Tinti, Hannah

Tóibín, Colm

Tofel, Richard (2017)
Tolstaya, Tatyana
Toscano, Rodrigo
Torres, Edwin
Townsend, Jacinda
Treuer, David
Trillin, Calvin
Troupe, Quincy
Tschantret, Erin Marie
Turco, Lewis
Turse, Nick
The Turn of the Screw
Tuten, Frederic
Twichell, Chase
Tyson, Neil deGrasse (2014)

V

Vachon, Christine
Valcarcel, Emilio Diaz 
Valentine, Jean
Valenzuela, Luisa
Van den Berg, Laura
Varda, Agnes
Vendler, Helen
Verdolin, Jennifer

Verrell, Chuck
Vessenki, Vladimir
Vieira, Yava F. 
Vizenor, Gerald
Vlahos, Kelly (2017)
Vollmann, William
Vonnegut, Kurt
Vreeland, Susan

X

Xiao-tang, Li

Z

Zagajewski, Adam
Zaqtan, Ghassan
Zhengguo, Kang

Zhenkai, Zhao

Zisquit, Linda
Zi-Yun, Li

Zoboi, Ibi (2019)