The Jones Lectureship at Stanford University

Stanford University

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

 is a two-year teaching fellowship available to previous Stegner Fellows

Stegner Fellowship

The Stegner Fellowship program is a two-year creative writing fellowship at Stanford University. The award is named after American Wallace Stegner , an historian, novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and Stanford faculty member who founded the university's creative writing program. Ten...

. The Lectureship is available in fiction and poetry and is intended to provide writers with the time and support needed to complete book-length literary projects. Jones Lecturers typically teach several undergraduate courses per year. The Lectureship is named for Richard Foster Jones

Richard Foster Jones

Richard Foster Jones was a professor of English at Stanford University, and executive head of the university's English department. His research interests included early modern English literature , the history of science, and the writings of Jonathan Swift.-Life:Born in Salido, Texas, he was the...

, head of the Stanford English Department when Wallace Stegner

Wallace Stegner

Wallace Earle Stegner was an American historian, novelist, short story writer, and environmentalist, often called "The Dean of Western Writers"...

 founded Stanford's Creative Writing Program following the end of Second World War. The original $500,000 endowment for the Lectureship came from Dr. E. H. Jones, a Texas oilman and brother of Richard Foster Jones.

Other appointments available to former Stegner Fellows include the Marsh McCall Lectureship and the Draper Lectureship, each two-year appointments at Stanford University. The Marsh McCall Lecturer oversees the staffing and teaching of creative writing courses at Stanford Continuing Studies. It is named for Classics Professor Marsh McCall, former dean of Continuing Studies. Former Marsh McCall Lecturers include Julie Orringer

Julie Orringer

Julie Orringer , is an American writer and lecturer born in Miami, Florida. Her first book, How to Breathe Underwater, was published in September 2003 by Knopf Publishing Group...

, Stephen Elliott

Stephen Elliott (author)

Stephen Elliott is an American author and activist living in San Francisco who has written and published seven books. He is also the founder of the political action committee LitPAC, which holds readings by authors to raise money for progressive candidates.-Background and education:Elliott grew...

, Eric Puchner

Eric Puchner

-Life:His short stories have appeared in Chicago Tribune, The Sun, The Missouri Review, and Best New American Voices. He was a fellow at Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.He attended Chadwick School high school...

, Adam Johnson

Adam Johnson (writer)

Adam Johnson is an American novelist and short story writer.-Biography:Johnson was born in South Dakota and raised in Arizona...

 and Angela Pneuman.The Draper Lecturer primarily teaches undergraduate courses in creative non-fiction. It is named for Phyllis Draper and William Henry Draper III

William Henry Draper III

William Henry Draper III is a prominent American venture capitalist.-Early life and career:Draper was born in White Plains, New York, the son of Katherine and banker and diplomat William Henry Draper, Jr. He attended Yale University with George H. W. Bush, graduated in 1950, the year after George...

.

List of notable Jones Lecturers

• Tobias Wolff
  Tobias Wolff
  Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff is an American author. He is known for his memoirs, particularly This Boy's Life , and his short stories. He has also written two novels.-Biography:Wolff was born in 1945 in Birmingham, Alabama...
  
  
• Stephanie Vaughn
• Allan Gurganis
• Scott Turow
• Rick Barot
• Timothy Steele
  Timothy Steele
  Timothy Steele is an American poet and academic. Born in Burlington, Vermont, in 1948, he is a professor of English at California State University, Los Angeles. Some of Steele's early verse appeared in X. J. Kennedy's Counter/Measures in the early seventies. He went on to become a figure in the...
  
  
• Al Young
  Al Young
  Al Young is an American poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and professor. On May 15, 2005 he was named Poet Laureate of California by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. In appointing Young as Poet Laureate, the Governor praised him: "He is an educator and a man with a passion for the Arts...
  
  
• Gabrielle Calvocoressi
• Tom Kealey
  Tom Kealey
  Tom Kealey is an American writer and Jones Lecturer in fiction at Stanford University.-Books:* .* Coyotes won the 2005 Joseph Henry Jackson Award from the San Francisco Foundation.-Other publications:...
  
  
• Adam Johnson
  Adam Johnson (writer)
  Adam Johnson is an American novelist and short story writer.-Biography:Johnson was born in South Dakota and raised in Arizona...
  
  
• ZZ Packer
  ZZ Packer
  ZZ Packer is an African-American author, notable for her works of short fiction.-Life:She grew up in Atlanta, Georgia and Louisville, Kentucky. "ZZ" was a childhood nickname; her given name is Zuwena...
  
  
• Tom Barbash
  Tom Barbash
  Tom Barbash is an American writer of fiction and nonfiction, educator and critic. He is the author of the novel The Last Good Chance and the bestselling nonfiction work On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick & 9/11: A Story of Loss & Renewal...
  
  
• Ryan Harty
• Nan Cohen
  Nan Cohen
  Nan Cohen is an American poet and poetry director of the Napa Valley Writers' Conference.-Life:She was raised in Reisterstown, Maryland, and graduated from Yale University and the University of California, Los Angeles....
  
  
• Peter Campion
  Peter Campion
  Peter Campion is an American poet.He graduated from Dartmouth College with a BA, and from Boston University with an MA. He taught at Washington College, Ashland University, and Auburn University...
  
  
• Daniel Orozco
  Daniel Orozco
  Daniel Orozco is a writer of fiction known primarily for his short stories. His works have appeared in anthologies such as The Best American Short Stories and The Pushcart Prize Anthology and magazines such as Harper's and Zoetrope...
  
  
• Belle Randall
• David Vann
  David Vann (writer)
  David Vann is an assistant professor of English at University of San Francisco. He teaches creative nonfiction and fiction. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University and is the author of the memoir A Mile Down: The True Story of a Disastrous Career at Sea...
  
  
• Ed McClanahan
  Ed McClanahan
  Ed McClanahan is an American novelist, essayist, and professor.-Biography:Edward Poage McClanahan was born in Brooksville, Kentucky in 1932 to Edward Leroy and Jesse McClanahan. He attended school there and later in nearby Maysville, Kentucky where the family relocated in 1948. McClanahan...
  
  
• Ehud Havazelet
  Ehud Havazelet
  Ehud Havazelet is an American novelist and short story writer.-Early life and education:Ehud Havazelet was born in Jerusalem, Israel. His father, Meir Havazelet, a rabbi and professor at Yeshiva University emigrated to the United States in 1957...
  
  
• Skip Horack
  Skip Horack
  -Personal Life/Education:He was raised in Covington, Louisiana where he attended St. Paul's School.Horack holds a B.A. in English and a J.D. from Florida State University...