Hallowell Literary Lecture
Courtesy of Elise Juska
Elise Juska
2025 Hallowell Lecturer
March 18
7 p.m.
Ball Auditorium
Elise Juska will discuss her path to becoming an author, her writerly obsessions, and the inspiration behind her novels Reunion, about a post-pandemic reunion at a small New England college, and The Blessings, about an extended family in Northeast Philadelphia.
This event is free and open to the public.
We hope you can join us!
About Elise Juska
Elise Juska is the author of the 2024 novel Reunion, which was named an Editors' Choice in The New York Times and one of People Magazine’s Best New Books. Her previous novels include If We Had Known and The Blessings, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and one of the Philadelphia Inquirer's best books of the year. Elise's short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Ploughshares, The Gettysburg Review, The Missouri Review, Harvard Review, The Hudson Review, and many other publications. She is the recipient of the Alice Hoffman Prize, and her short fiction has been cited by The Best American Short Stories and Pushcart Prize anthologies. She is a Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Bryn Mawr College.
About the Lecture Series
The Haverford School’s Edward R. Hallowell Literary Lecture Series annually brings to campus a distinguished, nationally known author to present a lecture, to spend a day with the students, and participate in informal readings and discussions to inspire an interest in literature. This fund was originally endowed by a gift from a Haverford Trustee, the late Thomas B. McCabe III, and his wife, Anne, parents of Thomas ’00. Additional gifts to the fund continue to be made by many other friends of Mr. Hallowell and the School.
Upcoming Lectures
Ball Auditorium
Recent Speakers
2023–24: Bradford Pearson
2021–22: Elias Rodriques
2019–20: W.D. Ehrhart
2018–19: Mark Bowden
2016–17: Jennifer Finney Boylan
2015–16: Natasha Trethewey
2014–15: David Finkel
2013–14: Elizabeth Samet