ENGLISH DEPARTMENT VISITING WRITERS
Fall 2009

Origin of the Kelly Writers Series:
Marilou Kelly '55 owned a marvelous bookstore in St. Charles, Illinois, for a number of years.  An avid reader and lover of books, she frequently persuaded authors to do readings for persons in the St. Charles community and became friends with a number of them.  When her husband, James Kelly, an executive with Goldman Sachs in Chicago, former chair of the Board of Trustees, and former chair of the Sesquicentennial Campaign, passed away January 8, 1994, she was interested in making a gift to DePauw.

Fiction Writer

Ron Carlson

reading
Thursday
November 5
7:30 p.m.
Meharry Hall
East College

RON CARLSON is the author of ten books of fiction, most recently the novel The Signal.  His novel Five Skies was selected as one of the best books of 2007 by the Los Angeles Times and as the one book Rhode Island for 2009.  His selected stories is A Kind of Flying, (W.W. Norton ), and his short fiction has appeared in Esquire, Harpers, The New Yorker, Gentlemen's Quarterly, Epoch, The Oxford American and other journals, as well as The Best American Short Stories, The O'Henry Prize Series, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction and dozens of other anthologies.  A graduate of the University of Utah, Mr. Carlson is Director of the Graduate Program in Fiction at the University of California, Irvine.  Graywolf Press published his book on the process of writing:  Ron Carlson Writes a Story.  Among his awards are a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, and the Cohen Prize at Ploughshares, the McGinnis Award at the Iowa Review and the Aspen Foundation Literary Award. 

 

Scott Raab photo

Nonfiction writer

Scott Raab

reading
Monday
November 16
7:30 PM
Peeler Auditorium

Kelly Writers Series presents a reading
by nonfiction writer
Scott Raab
from his recent work
on the trial
of concentration camp guard John Demanjanjuk

 

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Previous Participants in the James and Marilou Kelly Writers Series

Fall 2009
Memoirist Honor Moore
Poet Khaled Mattawa

Spring 2009
Fiction Writer Charles D'Ambrosio
Poet Kimiko Hahn
NonFiction Writer Ander Monson
Fiction and Creative NonFiction Writer Greg Schwipps

Fall 2008
NonFiction Writer Rich Cohen
Writer Michael Martone
Poet Lynne Thompson
Fiction Writer Dagoberto Gilb

Spring 2008
Author Susan Neville
Novelist Samrat Upadhyay
Poet Jay Hopler
Poet Metta Sama

Fall 2007
Poet Maurice Manning
Author Kent Haruf
Author & Poet Barbara Ras
Poet Sterling Plumpp
Fiction Writer Tony D'Souza

Spring 2007
Fiction Writer Brock Clarke
Playwright Arthur Kopit
Poet Kay Ryan
Fiction Writer and Novelist Sara Pritchard
Creative Nonfiction Writer J. D. Scrimgeour
Poet Anele Rubin

Fall 2006
Poet Eugene Gloria
Essayist Scott Russell Sanders
Writer Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
Fiction Writer David Harris Ebenback
Poet Martin Espada

Spring 2006
Memoirist Nick Flynn
Poet Talvikki Ansel
Fiction Writer Charles Baxter
Poet Rigoberto González
Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks
Poet Dana Roeser

Fall 2005
Fiction Writer Beth Lordan
Poet Li-Young Lee
Shakespeare Scholar David Bevington
Fiction Writer Scot Nadelson

Spring 2005
Fiction Writer Pam Houston
Fiction Writer Cathy Day
Author Stuart Dybek
Author Phillip Lopate
Poet Terrance Hayes
Poet Mary Szybist

Fall 2004
Novelist Douglas Bauer
Poet Maurice Manning
Science Fiction Writer Kim Stanley Robinson
Performance Poet Jessica Care Moore
Prose Writer Patricia Sarrifian Ward

Spring 2004
Biographer~Writer Jonathan Coleman
Critic Susan Gubar
Poet Tracie Morris
Poet Vince Gotera
Fiction Writer Pam Houston
Poet Beth Ann Fennelly

Fall 2003
Fiction & Creative Non-Fiction Writer Tom Chiarella
Fiction Writer Dan Chaon
Poet Kevin Young
Poet Naomi Shihab Nye
Fiction Writer Kellie Wells

Spring 2003
Poets Robert Wrigley & Brently Johnson
Fiction Writer Brady Udall
Poets Mông-Lan & Patti White
Poet & Critic Peter Balakian
Author Beth Hawkins

Fall 2002
Poet Amiri Baraka
Speaker Kristina Bross
Memoirist Lili Wright
Fiction Writer Erin McGraw
Literary Critic Bill Little
Screenwriters Mark & Virginia Spragg
Prose Writer Elizabeth Rosner

Spring 2002
Poet Robin Behn
Fiction Writer Susan Minot
Poet Tenaya Darlington
Author Bobbie Ann Mason

Fall 2001
Poet Maurice Manning
Writer Elizabeth Stuckey-French
Writer Dr. Lee Clark Mitchell
Poet Garrett Hongo
Fiction Writer Michael Zadoorian

 Spring 2001
Author & Editor Houston A. Baker, Jr
Poet Dana Levin
Literary Critic Pamela Caughie
Fiction Writer Geoff Schmidt
Fiction Writer Barbara Bean
Literary Critic Joy Castro

Fall 2000
Poet Billy Collins  
Poet Kevin Stein  
Essayist David Sedaris

Spring 2000
Poet Robin Metz

Fall 1999
Poet Marianne Boruch
 Fiction Writer Patricia Henley

Spring 1999
Fiction Writer Kent Haruf
Fiction writer Jesse Lee Kerchavel
Fiction Writer Alyce Miller