History of the Creative Writing Program
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- The celebrated writer and environmentalist Wallace Stegner founded the Stanford Creative Writing Program in 1946 with the aim of providing young, talented writers the guidance, encouragement, and funding to further their writing knowledge and craft. “Minds grow by contact with other minds,” Stegner wrote. “The bigger the better, as clouds grow toward thunder by rubbing together.” Over the past sixty years the Creative Writing Program has grown in stature so that it is widely recognized, alongside the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, as one of the two best programs in the country. It has trained thousands of undergraduates and hundreds of Stegner Fellows, including Wendell Berry, Tillie Olsen, Ernest Gaines, Scott Momaday, Ken Kesey, Larry McMurtry, Raymond Carver, Robert Pinsky, ZZ Packer, and Tobias Wolff. The directors and instructors in the program have been equally distinguished, among them: Wallace Stegner, Yvor Winters, John L’Heureux, Ken Fields, Nancy Packer, Simone DiPiero, Elizabeth Tallent, Tobias Wolff, and Eavan Boland. This program brought together in conversation important writers and Stanford faculty members who have been deeply involved with the Creative Writing Program.
Description
| Type of resource | sound recording-nonmusical |
|---|---|
| Extent | 1 audio file |
| Place | Stanford (Calif.) |
| Language | English |
| Digital origin | born digital |
Creators/Contributors
| Sponsor | Stanford Historical Society |
|---|---|
| Speaker | Packer, Nancy |
| Speaker | Boland, Eavan |
| Speaker | Levine, Philip |
| Speaker | Turow, Scott |
Subjects
| Subject | Stanford University |
|---|---|
| Genre | Lectures |
Bibliographic information
| Finding Aid | |
|---|---|
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/np176rq9154 |
| Location | SC0683 |
| Repository | Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives |
Access conditions
- Use and reproduction
- The materials are open for research use and may be used freely for non-commercial purposes with an attribution. For commercial permission requests, please contact the Stanford University Archives (universityarchives@stanford.edu).
- Copyright
- Copyright © The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved.
Collection
Stanford Historical Society program recordings, 1997-2022
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