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Issue 14 · Spring 2009

Michael Roth: Writing Programs Define the Wesleyan Experience

Michael Roth

Recently, John Shapiro ’74 and Shonni Silverberg ’76, MD, of New York City made a gift of $3.5 million to transform Wesleyan’s creative writing programs and endow the Writing Center. Their gift, which endows a faculty position to begin in fall ’09, is the latest high-profile expression of support for Wesleyan’s extraordinary Writing Programs.

April 1, Wesleyan welcomed Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Díaz to campus as the English Department 2009’s Millet Writing Fellow. He spoke to a characteristically enthusiastic audience in Memorial Chapel and read several selections of his work, which included the short story collection Drown and his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, for which he won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award...
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About the AOC Newsletter

The Alumni of Color Newsletter was created to provide a forum for alumni of color to share their experiences and accomplishments with each other and to facilitate engagement with the University. The newsletter is produced by the Office of Alumni and Parent Relations.

Editor

Linda Secord
Director of Alumni Relations

Editorial Contributor

David Low ’76
Associate Director of Publications