LECTURERS AND READERS
Lecturers | Readers

The Annual Hopwood Lecture will be April 19, 2005. The lecture will follow the announcement of the awards.

The complete list of lecturers and their subjects follows:

1932. Robert Morss Lovett. Literature and Animal Faith.
1933. Max Eastman. Literature in the Age of Science.
1934. Zona Gale. Writing as Design.
1935. Henry Hazlitt. Literature Versus Opinion.
1937. Christopher Morley. A Successor to Mark Twain.
1938. Walter Prichard Eaton. American Drama Versus Literature.
1939. Carl Van Doren. The First American Man of Letters.
1940. Henry Seidel Canby. The American Tradition in Contemporary Literature.
1941. Edward Weeks. On Counting Your Chickens Before They Hatch.
1942. John Crowe Ransom. The Primitive Language of Poetry.
1943. Mary Colum. Modern Mode in Literature.
1944. Louise Bogan. Popular and Unpopular Poetry.
1945. Struthers Burt. The Unreality of Realism.
1946. Harlan Hatcher. Towards American Cultural Maturity.
1947. Robert Penn Warren. The Themes of Robert Frost.
1948. J. Donald Adams. The Writer's Responsibility.
1949. F. O. Matthiessen. Responsibilities of the Critic.
1950. Norman Cousins. In Defense of a Writing Career.
1951. Mark Van Doren. The Possible Importance of Poetry.
1952. Horace Gregory. Dramatic Art in Poetry.
1953. Stephen Spender. The Young Writer, Present, Past, and Future.
1954. John Gassner. Modern Playwriting at the Crossroads.
1955. Archibald MacLeish. Why Can't They Say What They Mean?
1956. Philip Rahv. Literary Criticism and the Imagination of Alternatives.
1957. Malcolm Cowley. The Beginning Writer in the University.
1958. John Ciardi. The Silences of the Poem.
1959. Howard Nemerov. The Swaying Form: A Problem in Poetry.
1960. Theodore Roethke. The Poetry of Louise Bogan.
1961. Saul Bellow. Where Do We Go From Here? The Future of Fiction.
1962. Mark Schorer. The Burdens of Biography.
1963. Arthur Miller. On Recognition.
1964. Alfred Kazin. Autobiography as Narrative.
1965. Donald Davie. Sincerity and Poetry.
1966. Peter Taylor. That Cloistered Jazz.
1967. Robert Brustein. No More Masterpieces.
1968. Denise Levertov. Origins of a Poem.
1969. Peter De Vries. Exploring Inner Space.
1970. Nadine Gordimer. Modern African Writing.
1971. Theodore Solotaroff. The Practical Critic: A Personal View.
1972. Caroline Gordon. The Shape of the River.
1973. Robert W. Corrigan. The Changing of the Avant-Garde.
1974. W. D. Snodgrass. Moonshine and Sunny Beams: A Rumination on A Midsummer Night's Dream.
1975. Pauline Kael. On Movies.
1976. John Simon. The Word on Film.
1977. Walker Percy. The State of the Novel: Dying Art or New Science.
1978. Tom Wolfe. Literary Technique in the Last Quarter of the Twentieth Century.
1979. Joan Didion. Making Up Stories.
1980. Al Alvarez. The Myth of the Artist.
1981. Arthur Miller. The American Writer: The American Theatre.
1982. Stephen Spender. The Obsession of Writers with the Act of Writing.
1983. Maxine Hong Kingston. Imagined Life.
1984. Norman Mailer. The Hazards and Sources of Writing.
1985. E. L. Doctorow. The Beliefs of Writers.
1986. Carolyn Kizer. Poetry of Social Concern Since World War II.
1987. Joyce Carol Oates. Beginnings.
1988. Donald Justice. The Prose Sublime.
1989. Francine du Plessix Gray. Women and Russian Literature.
1990. William Kennedy. Writers and Their Songs.
1991. Robert Hass. Prisons and Families: Some Thoughts on Contemporary Poetry.
1992. Richard Ford. What We Write About, and Why, and Who Cares.
1993. Roger Rosenblatt. Nine Anti-Rules of Journalism.
1994. Geoffrey Wolff. Writers and Their Characters.
1995. Diane Johnson. The Writer as a Character.
1996. Louise Glück. The Fear of Happiness.
1997. Philip Levine. Two Journeys.
1998. John Barth. Further Questions?
1999. Lawrence Kasdan. POV.
2000. Donald Hall. Starting and Keeping On.
2001. Andrea Barrett. Four Voyages.
2002. Edmund White. Writing Gay.
2003. Richard Howard. The Fatality of Reading.
2004. Mary Gordon. Flannery's Kiss.
2005. Susan Orlean, Roads Taken (and Not).
2006. Charles Baxter, Losers.
2007. Susan Stamberg, Writing to be Heard.

The Writing Life: The Hopwood Lectures, Fifth Series, edited with an introduction by Nicholas Delbanco, was published by The University of Michigan Press in 2000.

Each January, a prominent poet or fiction writer reads at the Hopwood
Underclassmen Awards Ceremony. A complete list of readers follows:

1970. Louis Simpson, Poetry Reading
1971. W. D. Snodgrass, Poetry Reading
1972. Adrienne Rich, Poetry Reading
1973. Richard Wilbur, Poetry Reading
 E. L. Doctorow, Fiction Reading, Freshman Composition Awards
1974. Anthony Hecht, Poetry Reading
 George Garrett, Lecture, Freshman Composition Awards
1975. Joseph Heller, Fiction Reading
 John Gardner, Fiction Reading, Freshman Composition Awards
1976. John Hawkes, Fiction Reading
 Robert Coles, Non-fiction Reading, Freshman Essay Awards
1977. Maxine Kumin, Poetry Reading
 Eudora Welty, Fiction Reading, Freshman Essay Awards
1978. Marge Piercy, Poetry Reading
1979. Kenneth Rexroth, Poetry Reading
1980. Lewis Lapham, Lecture
1981. Gwendolyn Brooks, Poetry Reading
1982. Stanley Kunitz, Poetry Reading
1983. James Merrill, Poetry Reading
1984. William Gaddis, Lecture
1985. Donald Hall, Poetry Reading
1986. Bernard Malamud, Fiction Reading
1987. Richard Wilbur, Poetry Reading
1988. George Garrett, Fiction Reading
1989. Derek Walcott, Poetry Reading
1990. Maxine Kumin, Poetry Reading
1991. Bharati Mukherjee, Fiction Reading
1992. Charles Simic, Poetry Reading
1993. Jamaica Kincaid, Fiction Reading
1994. John Ashbery, Poetry Reading
1995. Barry Lopez, Non-fiction Reading
1996. Max Apple, Non-fiction Reading
1997. Elmore Leonard, Fiction Reading
1998. Grace Paley, Fiction Reading
1999. Yusef Komunyakaa, Poetry Reading
2000. Sue Miller, Fiction Reading
2001. C.K. Williams, Poetry Reading
2002. Heather McHugh, Poetry Reading
2003. Rick Moody, Fiction Reading
2004. Nancy Willard. Poetry Reading
2005. Carolyn Forché, Poetry Reading
2006. Alice Fulton, Poetry Reading
2007. Linda Pastan, Poetry Reading