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Endowed scholarship for talented writers and scholars

With a generous gift in honor of alumna Louise Rosenstiel Frank, Connecticut College has established a scholarship fund that will help needy students attend our highly selective liberal arts college and pursue majors in literature and writing. Read the March 18, 2008, news release.

Klagsbrun Symposium showcases authors

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri and fiction writer Ben Fountain headlined the 14th Daniel Klagsbrun Symposium on Writing and Moral Vision at Connecticut College in 2007. They took part in a discussion, "A Public Conversation on Writing and Moral Vision," with Blanche McCrary Boyd, the Roman S. and Tatiana Weller Professor of English.

The biennial symposium has brought to campus such noted authors as Dorothy Allison, Saul Bellow, Joseph Brodsky, Sandra Cisneros, Michael Cunningham, E.L. Doctorow, Adrienne Rich and Elie Wiesel. The Klagsbrun Symposium was established in 1989 by the parents of Daniel Klagsbrun, a 1986 graduate of the College who died tragically in New York City within days of his 24th birthday. The Klagsbrun family established the symposium to create a positive, living memorial to their son. 

Student poets on the circuit

Connecticut College's Taylor Katz '08 was one of five student poets from area colleges who read their poetry on the Connecticut Poetry Circuit Student Tour in 2008, and who opened with their readings the The Sunken Garden Poetry & Music Festival on the grounds of the Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington, CT.  In the last fifteen years, Connecticut College students have produced on average one honors thesis in poetry each year.

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