The Writing College
Amherst College is one of the worlds premier writing colleges, with an enviable literary legacy. Throughout our 200-year history, our faculty and alumni have included influential and award-winning authors, including Robert Frost, Richard Wilbur 42, James Merrill 47, Sonia Sanchez, Alexander Chee, David Foster Wallace 85, Dan Brown 86, Rafael Campo 87, Debby Applegate 89, Kirun Kapur 97, Min Jin Lee, Lauren Groff 01, and many others.
Today, we enjoy a thriving literary life on campus with talented faculty, numerous literary events (including the annual LitFest), and prominent 蹤獲扦ations. Our faculty teach creative writing in small, intensive classes. Our events include an annual literary festival and a visiting writers series, which bring to campus distinguished authors for readings, conversations, and master classes. The Colleges offers programming celebrating the poets work and life, while our Folger Shakespeare Library remains the worlds preeminent institution for the study of Shakespeare. The Colleges literary journal, The Common, publishes an international array of established and emerging writers.