This year, our Haines Lecturer will be the writer Alice McDermott, winner of the National Book Award for her novel. Join us for her reading on October 26, at 4:30 PM in Convocation Hall.
Behind the quiet mien of Stacy Haines lived a great enthusiasm for language, ideas, and the of the mind - an enthusiasm he joyfully shared with his wife Peggy.
Having discovered Sewanee through their son, who was graduated in 1966 with a major in English, Stacy and Peggy moved here when he retired from a career with Sears, Roebuck & Company in Chicago. From the time of their arrival in this community, their home became a place of hospitality for aspiring and accomplished readers and writers.
This series of lectures and readings, funded permanently by gifts in Stacy's memory from his family and friends, and administered by the College Department of English, stands as a natural and proper extension of the man and his interests.
Stacy Allen Haines
1919 - 1983
Haines Lecturers, Poets, and Writers
2021 - Alice McDermott
2018 - Wendy Wall
2017 - Marilyn Nelson
2016 - Danielle Evans
2015 - John Lahr
2014 - Charles Martin
2013 - Jay Parini
2010 - J. Paul Hunter
2009 - Anthony Esolen
2008 - Ann Patchett
2007 - Marjorie Garber
2006 - Geoffrey Wolff
2006 - Andrew Delbanco
2005 - Lawrence Lipking
2004 - James Wood
2002 - Barry Hannah
2001 - Andrew Hudgins
2000 - Paul Muldoon
1999 - Robert Pinsky
1998 - Denis Donoghue
1997 - Madison Jones
1996 - Sir Frank Kermode
1993 - X. J. Kennedy
1990 - Tim O'Brien
1989 - Robert Pack
1988 - Arthur Kinney
1988 - Alan Cheuse
1986 - Anthony Evan Hecht
