
The Steloff Lecture
                                 Over fifty years, the Lecture has brought some of the best literary and artistic talent to campus, including Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Laureates, as well as almost a dozen Pulitzer- and Booker Prize-winners. Previous Steloff honorees have included Louise GlΓΌck, Mario Vargas Llosa, J. M. Coetzee, Saul Bellow, Nadine Gordimer, Chinua Achebe, Martha Graham, Seamus Heaney, Anais Nin, Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Arthur Miller, Gwendolyn Brooks, Zadie Smith, and Jonathan Franzen.
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2025 Lecturer
                                 Sigrid Nunez
                                 Join us Thursday, September 25, at 8 pm, for the 55th annual Steloff Lecture delivered by novelist Sigrid Nunez. Nunez will lecture, respond to audience
                                          questions, and be awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters. She will sign books
                                          following the presentation.
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History of the Steloff Lecture
                                 
                                    					Since 1967, the annual Steloff Lecture has brought outstanding literary and artistic talent to ΞΆΓάΘ¦ College. Endowed
                                    by Frances Steloff, a native of Saratoga Springs, who founded the legendary Gotham
                                    Book Mart in New York City, the Lecture continues Miss Steloff’s generosity and friendship
                                    to numerous authors. 
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                              Learn more about Frances Steloff