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Frances Steloff Lecture

 

 

Jonathan Franzen Lecturing to Crowd
The Steloff Lecture

Over fifty years, the Lecture has brought some of the best literary and artistic talent to campus, including Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Laureates, as well as almost a dozen Pulitzer- and Booker Prize-winners. Previous Steloff honorees have included Louise Glück, Mario Vargas Llosa, J. M. Coetzee, Saul Bellow, Nadine Gordimer, Chinua Achebe, Martha Graham, Seamus Heaney, Anais Nin, Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Arthur Miller, Gwendolyn Brooks, Zadie Smith, and Jonathan Franzen. 

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Sigrid Nunez
2025 Lecturer
Sigrid Nunez
Join us Thursday, September 25, at 8 pm, for the 55th annual Steloff Lecture delivered by novelist Sigrid Nunez. Nunez will lecture, respond to audience questions, and be awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters. She will sign books following the presentation.

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Frances Steloff with Granville Hicks
History of the Steloff Lecture
Since 1967, the annual Steloff Lecture has brought outstanding literary and artistic talent to ³Ô¹ÏÍø. Endowed by Frances Steloff, a native of Saratoga Springs, who founded the legendary Gotham Book Mart in New York City, the Lecture continues Miss Steloff’s generosity and friendship to numerous authors.

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