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  • Yearlong series brings prominent authors to campus

    Anna Deavere Smith

    Actress and playwright Anna Deavere Smith is presenting a CultureTalk on Wednesday with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Julia Wolfe. Smith’s talk is part of “A Year of Creative Writers,” a yearlong series of conversations presented by the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities and the Creative Writing Program.

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  • Editor’s notes: To contact Antoinette Burton, email aburton@illinois.edu. To contact Janice Harrington, email jharr@illinois.edu. More information about “A Year of Creative Writers,” including biographies of the speakers, can be found online.

    The program is supported by a grant from the University of Illinois Presidential Initiative to Celebrate the Impact of the Arts and Humanities.

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Actress and playwright Anna Deavere Smith is presenting a CultureTalk on Wednesday with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Julia Wolfe. Smith’s talk is part of “A Year of Creative Writers,” a yearlong series of conversations presented by the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities and the Creative Writing Program.

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Luis Alberto Urrea, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and a professor of creative writing at the University of Illinois at Chicago

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Meagan Cass, a fiction writer and editor who teaches creative writing and publishing at the University of Illinois at Springfield

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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tyehimba Jess

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Dave Eggers, an author, founder of McSweeney’s and an Illinois alumnus

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Bestselling author Roxane Gay

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2017-19 U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy K. Smith

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