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Columbia Faculty Members Receive Guggenheim Fellowships

Columbia professors in disciplines such as classics, sociology, music and writing were awarded Guggenheim Fellowships for 2015.

Columbia Writers Create a Morningside Moveable Feast
Literary Lion: 5 Questions with Playwright Lynn Nottage
Literary Lion: 5 Questions with Essayist and Novelist Phillip Lopate
Literary Lion: 5 Questions with Novelist Sam Lipsyte
Literary Lion: 5 Questions with Writer and Director Jamal Joseph

Film Professor Jamal Joseph has written and directed for Black Starz, HBO, Fox TV, New Line Cinema, Warner Bros. and A&E. 

Literary Lion: 5 Questions with Nonfiction Writer Lis Harris

Associate Professor Lis Harris was a staff writer at The New Yorker from 1970 to 1995. In addition to innumerable articles, reviews and commentaries, she is the author of Holy Days: The World of a Hasidic Family.

Literary Lion: 5 Questions with Screenwriter and Essayist Trey Ellis

Associate Professor Trey Ellis is an Emmy-nominated screenwriter, an American Book Award-winning novelist and playwright. He has written screenplays for, among others, Columbia Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, HBO and Showtime. 

Literary Lion: 5 Questions with Nobel Laureate, Novelist Orhan Pamuk
Literary Lion: 5 Questions with Cultural Critic Margo Jefferson
Literary Lion: 5 Questions with Short Story Writer and Poet Alan Ziegler
Literary Lion: 5 Questions with Novelist Colm Tóibín
Literary Lion: 5 Questions with Nonfiction Writer Andrew Solomon

Andrew Solomon, a professor of clinical psychology at Columbia University Medical Center, has just assumed the presidency of PEN American Center. His most recent book, Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity (2012), won the National Book Critics Circle award for nonfiction. A previous book, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, won the National Book Award for nonfiction in 2001 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2002. Solomon has written numerous articles for the The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum and other publications on a wide range of topics…

Literary Lion: 5 Questions with Playwright David Henry Hwang

The work of David Henry Hwang, an associate professor and head of the School of the Arts’ playwrighting concentration, includes the plays M. Butterfly, Chinglish, Golden Child, Yellow Face, The Dance and the Railroad and FOB, as well as the Broadway musicals Aida (co-author), Flower Drum Song (2002 revival) and Disney’s Tarzan.

Literary Lion: 5 Questions with Novelist Gary Shteyngart

Associate Professor Gary Shteyngart was born in Leningrad in 1972 and came to the United States seven years later. He released his debut memoir, Little Failure, in 2014, to much critical acclaim.