WRITERS’ WORKSHOPSERIES 2012

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WRITERS’ WORKSHOPSERIES

Free and open to the public!

Now in its 15th year, the Writers’ Workshop Series brings some of today's most accomplished writers to our campus and our classrooms. It is a unique opportunity for students to learn about writing from those who do it best. Founded by Williston parents Elinor Lipman P’00, and Madeleine Blais P’00, '04, the series has welcomed authors including Andre Dubus III, Tracy Kidder P'92, Tom Perrotta, and Curtis Sittenfeld.

ALL PROGRAMS ARE FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. They are held in the Dodge Room of the Reed Campus Center at The Williston Northampton School at 7:00 PMDates & times are subject to change. See www.williston.com/writersworkshop for updates.

THE WILLISTON NORTHAMPTON SCHOOL

WRITERS’ WORKSHOP SERIES www.williston.com/writersworkshop

ANITA SHREVE MONDAY, OCTOBER 22After graduating from Tufts University,

Anita Shreve taught high school in and

around Boston but eventually quit to

start writing. After discovering that one

couldn’t make a living writing short

fiction, Shreve traveled to Nairobi, Kenya,

where she lived for three years and worked as a journalist

for an African magazine. Returning to the United States,

Shreve was a writer and editor for a number of magazines

in New York. In 1989, she published her first novel, Eden

Close. Since then she has written 12 other novels, among

them The Weight of Water, The Pilot’s Wife, and The Last

Time They Met. In 1998, Shreve received the PEN/L. L.

Winship Award and the New England Book Award for

fiction. Shreve is married to a man she met when she was

13. She has two children and three stepchildren (Williston

graduates among them).

Christopher Benfey is Mellon Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College.

A frequent contributor to The New York Times Book Review, The New

Republic, and The New York Review of Books, he has held fellowships from

the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities,

and the American Council of Learned Societies. Benfey’s most recent book,

A Summer of Hummingbirds, won the Christian Gauss Award of Phi Beta

Kappa. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.

JEN DUBOIS ’02 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16Jennifer duBois earned an MFA from

the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and recently

completed a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford

University. Her short fiction has appeared

or is forthcoming in Playboy, The Missouri

Review, The Kenyon Review, ZYZZYVA, The

Northwest Review, and elsewhere. Her first

novel, A Partial History of Lost Causes, was

published by The Dial Press in March.

MO WILLEMS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1Mo Willems is a three-time Caldecott Honor-winning

Dinosaur (for Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!,

Knuffle Bunny, and Knuffle Bunny Too). He also won

two Geisel Medals for There Is a Bird on Your Head! and

Are You Ready to Play Outside?, and a Geisel Honor for

We Are in a Book! His books are perennial New York

Times bestsellers, including Knuffle Bunny Free and

Hooray for Amanda & Her Alligator! Before he turned

to making picture books, Mo was a writer and animator

on Sesame Street, where he won six Emmys. Mo lives

happily ever after with his family in Massachusetts.

For more information, call 413.529.3311 or email info@williston.com

CHRISTOPHER BENFEY THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8