For centuries, writers of fiction have employed historical events, people, and settings to create dazzling literary landscapes--narratives fraught with possibility, improbability, and inventive delight. Join us in 2009 as we bring together world-renowned writers of historical fiction and noted historians to talk about their journeys into the past (real and imagined) and to explore and share their many ways of knowing and understanding what has come before.

Session 1: January 8 – 11, 2009
with
Geraldine Brooks, Peter Ho Davies, Eric Foner, Allan Gurganus, Ursula Hegi, Tony Horwitz, Jane Kamensky, Jill Lepore, David Levering Lewis, Megan Marshall, Peter Matthiessen, Ivy Meeropol, Michael Meeropol, Sena Jeter Naslund, Patricia O’Toole, Barry Unsworth, Gore Vidal, Hilma Wolitzer, and John Wray

John Hersey Memorial Address: Geraldine Brooks
John Malcolm Brinnin Memorial Address: Gala Evening with Gore Vidal

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Workshop Program: January 12 – 15, 2009
with
Alan Cheuse, Billy Collins, Edward Hower, Alison Lurie, Mary Morris, Bich Minh Nguyen, Patricia O'Toole, Porter Shreve, Dara Wier, and Hilma Wolitzer

Session 2: January 15 – 18, 2009
with
Chantel Acevedo, Calvin Baker, Russell Banks, Andrea Barrett, Madison Smartt Bell, Alan Cheuse, Elizabeth Gaffney, Francisco Goldman, Samantha Hunt, William Kennedy, Rachel Kushner, Thomas Mallon, Valerie Martin, Anchee Min, Mary Morris, David Nasaw, Joyce Carol Oates, Marilynne Robinson, John Burnham Schwartz, and Barry Unsworth

John Hersey Memorial Address: Barry Unsworth