The Beck Series provides students the opportunity to hear, study with, and engage some of this country’s finest writers.
About the Beck Series
For over fifty years the Beck Series, funded by the Harriet Ewens Beck Endowment for English, has been a mainstay of creative writing studies at Denison University. The series provides students the opportunity to hear, study with, and engage some this country’s finest writers in the close quarters and pastoral setting of our hilltop campus in Granville, Ohio.
Here are just a few notable speakers from past years:
- Eudora Welty — Pulitzer Prize winner for “The Optimist’s Daughter”
- Alice Walker — Pulitzer Prize & National Book Award winner; author of “The Color Purple ”
- Tom Stoppard — Playwright & Oscar-winning screenwriter for “Shakespeare in Love”
- W.S. Merwin — Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner & United States Poet Laureate
