Lane Lecture Series
The Lane Lecture Series is a major presence in the cultural life of Stanford University. Through their generosity, Jean and Bill Lane have made it possible for the most distinguished and exciting of contemporary writers to visit Stanford.
Established in 1981, this series honors the enduring power and importance of our literature by bringing the best of writers together with their readers, offering both campus and community a rare and exhilarating experience of their work. The 2024-25 writers will be announced soon.
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Upcoming Events
The Creative Writing Program is pleased to announce the next event in the Lane Lecture Series: Reading with Ellen Bryant Voigt, in Conversation with Jennifer Grotz.
Past Events
Tracy K. Smith is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Ordinary Light (Knopf, 2015), a finalist for the 2015 National Book…
Jennifer Egan was born in Chicago and raised in San Francisco. She is the author of The Invisible Circus, a novel which became a feature film…