The innovative course is under the auspices of the Gottesman Program for Academic Excellence, an initiative supported by David S. Gottesman, YU's Board of Trustees chairman, and his wife, Dr. Ruth L. Gottesman. Each writer will teach a once-weekly fiction writing course, and guest speakers chosen by the instructors will deliver evening readings several times during the semester.
Writing is one of the critical tools of communication by which the life of the mind is enriched.
Mr. Rosen will launch the new program this spring. Executive director of The Forward Foundation and cultural editor of The Forward , he is author of Eve's Apple . I'm very excited about the chance to teach at Yeshiva College. Ms. Kaplan, author of Other People's Lives , a collection of stories, and O America , a novel, will teach the course next fall. Her books have been nominated for the National Book Award, American Book Award, and Ernest Hemingway-PEN Prize Award.