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The Hausman Lecture Series
Established through an endowment by Richard Hausman ’50, P'85 and Edna Hausman P'85, the Hausman Lecture has brought prominent writers to campus for lectures, readings and workshops since 1982.
Past Hausman Lecturers have included:
2019-2020 Alice McDermott
2018-2019 Eileen Myles
2017-2018 Nick Flynn
2016-2017 Chang-rae Lee
2015-2016 Edwidge Danticat
2014-2015 Jennifer Egan
2013-2014 Louise Glück
2012-2013 Diane Ackerman
2011-2012 Amy Tan
2010-2011 Robert Hass
2009-2010 Amy Bloom
2008-2009 Yusef Komunyakaa
2007-2008 Naomi Shihab Nye
2006-2007 Barry Lopez
2005-2006 David Foster Wallace
2004-2005 Frank McCourt
2003-2004 Ellen Gillchrist 2002-2003 Billy Collins
2001-2002 Michael Ondaatje
2000-2001 Robert Pinsky
1999-2000 Ama Ata Aidoo
1998-1999 Charles Simic
1997-1998 Anna Quindlen
1996-1997 William Styron
1995-1996 Robert Pack
1994-1995 Maya Angelou
1993-1994 Joyce Carol Oates
1992-1993 William Snodgrass
1991-1992 Mary Gordon
1990-1991 John Edgar Wideman
1989-1990 Stanley Kunitz
1988-1989 Gwendolyn Brooks
1987-1988 John Barth
1986-1987 E. L. Doctorow
1985-1986 Chezlaw Milosz
1984-1985 Denise Levertov
1982-1983 Jorges Luis Borges
1981-1982 Paul Theroux
Emerging Writers Festival
The Emerging Writers Festival at Franklin & Marshall College is a three-day celebration of the work of talented and promising younger American writers. Each year, the Festival brings five fine younger writers to campus in April, giving them opportunities to mix often and informally with students and with one another.
The Emerging Writers Festival is generously supported by Richard Hausman '50, P'85 and Edna Hausman P'85, parents of a Franklin & Marshall graduate and tireless and generous supporters of the arts at the College.
For more information about the Emerging Writers Festival, visit its webpage by clicking here.
Jerome Irving Bank Memorial Short Story Prize Reading
The Jerome Irving Bank Memorial Short Story Prize was endowed by Lawrence H. Bank, Esq. '65 to honor and preserve the memory of his late brother, Jerome Irving Bank, Esq., a graduate of Hobart College and of the New York University School of Law. Jerome Irving Bank always wanted to be a writer, but died before realizing this dream. Lawrence Bank hopes the contest will encourage students to take a chance by following a dream, something that he, too, wishes he had tried a long time ago.
The Bank Visiting Writer judges the prize submissions, visits Franklin & Marshall College during the spring semester to meet the prize winner and runner-up, leads an afternoon craft talk with students and offers an evening reading.
Past Bank Visiting Writers have included:
2019-2020 Caitlin Horrocks
2018-2019 Carolyn Ferrell
2017-2018 Carmen Maria Machado
2016-2017 Eric Puchner
2015-2016 Robin Black
2014-2015 Pete Rock
2013-2014 Rick Moody
2012-2013 Hannah Tinti
2011-2012 Kevin Brockmeier
2010-2011 Charles D'Ambrosio
2009-2010 Dan Chaon
2008-2009 Lewis Robinson
2007-2008 Ryan Harty
2006-2007 Michael Griffith
2005-2006 Cathy Day
2004-2005 Michael Byers