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Michael Pollan, the award-winning journalist and author best known for his books on the human relationship with food, will be a lecturer with Harvard's Creative Writing Program this fall.

For hungry young writers, a kindred guide

Award-winning author Michael Pollan plans lively engagement with students on food, storytelling

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DateSeptember 1, 2017March 6, 2019

The Creative Writing Program has seen a huge influx of students in recent years, with more senior English concentrators writing creative theses than critical theses.

Making magic out of 26 letters

Harvard’s creative writing program is thriving, growing in breadth, size

Arts|

DateDecember 21, 2016March 4, 2019

“Reading was how I learned how non-Puerto Ricans lived,” said author and screenwriter Esmeralda Santiago at a diversity dialogue hosted by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. “I understood something about life that I couldn’t experience in any other way. I could be in a disco reading ‘Madame Bovary’ and not hear the music.”

An author finds her voice

Esmeralda Santiago, born in Puerto Rico, recalls living in two ethnic worlds, and embracing her roots

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DateApril 4, 2013June 26, 2019

“It’s a book about trying to answer questions, even though you’re not really going to find an answer,” said writer Suzanne Berne, who is out with a new memoir about her grandmother. “People contain history, and they contain all sorts of connections to events they lived through.”

Mystery woman

Berne gathers clues to grandmother’s life for ‘Missing Lucile’

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DateNovember 18, 2010April 17, 2019