Birss Keynote Lecture, Fiction, Life, and The Red Badge of Courage, Thursday, March 5, 2020 at 4:30pm in the Mary Tefft White Cultural Center, Roger Williams University Library.
Dr. Christopher Benfey is the author of five highly regarded books about the American Gilded Age including The Double Life of Stephen Crane (1992) and A Summer of Hummingbirds. His most recent book, If: The Untold Story of Kipling's American Years, was a New York Times Notable Book of 2019. Also a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The New York Times Sunday Book Review, Benfey is a Guggenheim and the National Endowment for the Humanitities fellow. He is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College.
The New Republic: Willa Cather's Correspondence Reveals Something New
Slate: Outing an Unfinished Novel
Chicago Tribune: The Fictions of Stephen Crane
The New Republic: Willa Cather's Correspondence Reveals Something New
LA Times: Dreaming in Fiction: The Double Life of Stephen Crane
The Library of America interviews Christopher Benfey about Stephen Crane
Kirkus Review: The Double Life of Stephen Crane
The Atlantic: Christopher Benfey
NYT: Taking Another Look at the Author of 'The While Man's Burden'
NYT Book of The Times: How Stephen Crane Made His Life Imitate His Art
NYT: The Arbiter of Aristocracy: And No, It's Not Downton's Dowager
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