Tag: author

  • Arts & Culture

    Novelist Perrotta headlines LITFest

    Novelist Tom Perrotta, who headlines Harvard’s LITFest on Feb. 4, talks with a television co-writer and a Harvard instructor about the craft.

  • Campus & Community

    Menand wins National Humanities Medal

    Louis Menand, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English, was awarded a National Humanities Medal from President Obama.

  • Health

    From fresh food to magic mushrooms

    Author and journalist Michael Pollan has spent a fellowship year at Radcliffe changing directions and focusing on a fresh project, exploring a budding rebirth of psychedelic drugs for medicinal uses.

  • Arts & Culture

    Isaacson to deliver Rothschild Lecture

    Best-selling author and journalist Walter Isaacson will present the 2013 Maurine and Robert Rothschild Lecture, “The Genius of Jobs, Einstein, and Franklin,” on April 8 at the Radcliffe Gymnasium.

  • Campus & Community

    E.O. Wilson to receive Thoreau Prize

    PEN New England will present this year’s Henry David Thoreau Prize for Literary Excellence in Nature Writing on Feb. 8 to author Edward O. Wilson in recognition of his exceptional talents.

  • Campus & Community

    Steinem to receive Radcliffe Medal

    The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has announced that Gloria Steinem, a pioneering feminist, award-winning journalist, and best-selling author, will be awarded the 2010 Radcliffe Institute Medal at the Radcliffe Day luncheon on May 28.

  • Campus & Community

    Stuart M. Shieber to lead new OSC

    Stuart M. Shieber ’81, Harvard’s James O. Welch Jr. and Virginia B. Welch Professor of Computer Science, will serve as director of the University’s new Office for Scholarly Communication (OSC). Harvard University Provost Steven E. Hyman made the appointment, which he announced today (May 22) with Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and director…

  • Campus & Community

    Toni Morrison named Radcliffe Medalist

    The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study announced that author and Nobel laureate Toni Morrison will be awarded the 2007 Radcliffe Institute Medal at the annual Radcliffe Day luncheon on Friday (June 8) at 12:45 p.m. Drew G. Faust, president-elect of Harvard University and dean of the Radcliffe Institute, will provide opening remarks and present the…

    Toni Morrison.