The Belknap Visitor in the Humanities
The program of Belknap Visitors was created to recognize distinguished individuals in the arts and letters. Past visitors have been Eudora Welty, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Nadine Gordimer, Roy Lichtenstein, Athol Fugard, Doris Lessing, John Updike, Edward Albee, Czeslaw Milosz, Carlos Fuentes, Frank Stella, Robertson Davies, Peter Sellars, Arthur Miller, Merce Cunningham, Harold Pinter, Adrienne Rich, Maurice Sendak, Wim Wenders, Richard Serra, Chuck Close, Twyla Tharp, Ricky Jay, Toshiko Takaezu, Meryl Streep and Roz Chast.
Belknap Visitors spend a day or two on campus, interacting with students, faculty and members of the community.
Alan Bennett, British playwright, screenwriter and essayist, will be the Belknap Visitor on October 20, 2009, reading and talking about his work at 5 p.m. in McCosh 50.
