Schuduled Speakers:

James Tate--winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (for his Selected Poems ), whose other books include Distance From Loved Ones (Wesleyan University, 1990) and Reckoner (Wesleyan University, 1986).

Dara Wier--author of Blue for the Plough (Carnegie Mellon, 1992), The Book of Knowledge (Carnegie Mellon, 1988) and All You Have in Common (Carnegie Mellon, 1984).

Nicholas Samaras--winner of the 1991 Yale Series of Younger Poets Award (for Hands of the Saddlemaker ).

TO BE ANNOUNCED

Wednesday, July 23--Day Three, Hemingway's Life & Work

Michael Reynolds--author of the esteemed multi-volume biography on Hemingway--The Young Hemingway, Hemingway: The Paris Years, and Hemingway: The American Homecoming--and his recent addition, Hemingway: The 1930s. Reynolds has written numerous articles and books on Ernest Hemingway, including The Sun Also Rises: A Novel of the Twenties, Critical Essays on Hemingway's In Our Time, Hemingway's Reading: 1910-1940 and Hemingway's First War. Reynolds has served on the advisory boards of the Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park (1991-present), Friends of the Hemingway Collection, Kennedy Library (1991-present) and on the editorial board of The Hemingway Review (1980-present).

Valerie Hemingway--secretary to Ernest Hemingway in Spain, France and Cuba from 1959-60 and the one who, after the author's death in 1961, gathered all of his papers for the Hemingway Estate and organized them, first for use by biographer Carlos Baker, and later for presentation to the Kennedy Library. For two decades she worked in publishing and public relations in New York City, including two years as a fiction reviewer for Publishers Weekly. Her articles have appeared in Saturday Review, The New York Times and Ski Magazine.