1985-2005 Reading Series
Over the years, Bryn Mawr has hosted major American and international authors whose works have earned Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Awards, and many other distinctions. Below are lists of Series participants from 1985-2005.
2004-05: Charles Baxter, Paula Fox, Richard Howard, Edward P. Jones, Mary Karr, Antonya Nelson, Adrienne Rich, and Charles Wright.
2003-04: Anne Carson, Margaret Drabble, James Fenton, Anthony Hecht, Daniel Hoffman, Maxine Hong Kingston, Karl Kirchwey, Robert Pinsky, Grace Schulman, Susan Stewart, and August Wilson.
2002-03: Peter Cameron, Sandra Cisneros, Umberto Eco, Nadine Gordimer, Jessica Hagedorn, Stanley, Kunitz, James Lasdun, Ian McEwan, Sigrid Nunez, and Derek Walcott.
2001-02: Ann Beattie, Louise Glück, Maureen Howard, Phillip Lopate, Heather McHugh, Amos Oz, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, and Lore Segal.
2000-01: Carol DeChellis Hill, Samuel Delaney, Carol Ann Duffy, Shirley Hazzard, Li-Young Lee, and Joyce Carol Oates.
1999-00: Marilyn Hacker, Kimiko Hahn, Gish Jen, Elizabeth Mosier, and Sharon Olds.
1998-99: Billy Collins, María Irene Fornés, Mary Gordon, and Lorrie Moore.
1997-98: Nina Auerbach, Andrea Barrett, Esmeralda Santiago, and Gjertrud Schnackenberg.
1996-97: Anita Desai, Mary Oliver, Katha Pollitt, and Susan Power.
1995-96: Dorothy Allison, Anna Quindlen, and Sonia Sanchez.
1994-95: Rita Mae Brown, Kimiko Hahn, and Deborah Jowitt.
1993-94: Diane Ackerman, Jessica Hagedorn, Frances Stokes Hoekstra, and Diane Wakoski.
1991-92: Rachel Simon and Elaine Terranova.
1990-91: Gail Galloway Adams, Marilyn Hacker, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, and Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon.
1989-90: Marilyn Nelson and Pamela Painter.
1988-89: Mary Oliver, Karen Rile, Jeanne Walker, and Lisa Zeidner.
1987-88: Kirsten Hunter, Josephine Jacobsen, Valentine Sinkevich, and Hilma Wolitzer.
1986-87: Jorie Graham, Cynthia Ozick, Katha Pollitt, and Sharon Sheehe Starke.
1985-86: Jorie Graham, Denise Levertov, and Lynne Sharon Schwartz.