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Centennial Plus Five Celebration of Creative Writing
Cornell writers Díaz, Bank and Schumacher return to give reading
Duration: 01:15:26
Centennial Plus Five Celebration of Creative Writing
In his first visit to Cornell since winning the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," novelist Junot Díaz '95 joined fellow M.F.A. graduates Melissa Bank '88 ("The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing") and Julie Schumacher '86 ("Black Box," "An Explanation for Chaos") to give a public reading at Rockefeller Hall's Schwartz Auditorium on February 20, 2009. The event kicked off a series of events in 2009 highlighting Cornell writers and their work.
Cornell first offered creative writing courses in 1905 as part of the English department curriculum. Since then, the university has counted many literary greats among its faculty and former students, including Pynchon, Ammons, E.B. White, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Vladimir Nabokov, Lorrie Moore and Susan Choi; Pulitzer Prize winners Díaz and Alison Lurie; and Nobel laureates Toni Morrison and Pearl S. Buck.
- Event Date: February 20, 2009
- Posted: April 9, 2009
- Tags: writers, alumni
- From: Creative Writing
- Duration: 1:15:26
