E.L. Doctorow, Rita Dove, Nadine Gordimer, Thom Gunn, Robert Hass, Seamus Heaney, John Irving, Galway Kinnell, Maxine Kumin, Stanley Kunitz, John le Carre, Larry McMurtry, Ved Mehta, James Merrill, Toni Morrison, Iris Murdoch, Joyce Carol Oates, Sharon Olds, Grace Paley, Octavio Paz, Robert Pinsky, Wallace Stegner, Peter Taylor, Eudora Welty, and Richard Wilbur. The 1999-2000 academic year included visits by Peter Matthiessen, Tim O'Brien, and Louise Gluck. Each writer will give a public reading on the first evening of their visit, at 8 p.m. in Kresge Auditorium.
All events are free and open to the public.