During the summer and winter residencies for SNHU's MFA in fiction and nonfiction writing, students attend classes and at least one reading by a prominent writer who serves as a visiting faculty member.
2012 visiting faculty; Chris Bohjalian is the author of fourteen books, including his newest novel, The Night Strangers. Before Night Strangers, Bohjalian’s novel, Secrets of Eden, debuted at # 6 on both the New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists. His other novels include the bestsellers, Skeletons at the Feast, The Double Bind, Before You Know Kindness, The Law of Similars, and Midwives.
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2011 visiting faculty; Naturalist-artist David M. Carroll, who in 2006 was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow, is the author of three acclaimed natural histories “The Year of the Turtle,” “Trout Reflections,” and “Swamp-Walker’s Journal.” The latter was awarded the John Burroughs medal for distinguished nature writing. This “wet-sneaker trilogy” was expanded to a quartet with the publication of his memoir, centered on his lifelong connection with turtles, “Self-Portrait with Turtles.”
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2010 visiting faculty; Author of 10 books, including most recently the bestselling novel "The Knitting Circle" and the memoir "Comfort: A Journey Through Grief," which was a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice and was chosen as one of the top 10 nonfiction books of 2008 by Entertainment Weekly.
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2010 visiting faculty; Author of eight books, including the novel "To Die For," which was adapted into a screenplay and became a box-office hit starring Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon and Joaquin Phoenix. She is also the author of the bestselling memoir, "At Home in the World," in which she broke her silence about her years-long affair with reclusive author J.D. Salinger; it has been translated into 11 languages.
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2009 visiting facultyt; Francine Prose is the author of numerous novels, including My New American Life (HarperCollins, 2011); Goldengrove, a profoundly moving novel about a young girl plunged into adult grief and obsession after the drowning death of her sister; A Changed Man, for which she won the first Dayton Literary Peace Prize in fiction; and Blue Angel, which was a finalist for the 2000 National Book Award.
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2008 visiting faculty; Fadiman won a National Book Critics’ Circle Award for her first book, “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down.” She is the first Francis Writer in Residence, Yale University’s first chair in nonfiction writing. She won National Magazine Awards for reporting and essays, is the editor of the 2003 edition of Best American Essays and Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love (2005). Her essay collection, “At Large and at Small:Familiar Essays,”came out in 2007.
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2007 visiting faculty; Rhodes is the author or editor of 22 books. His“The Making of the Atomic Bomb” won a Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, a National Book Award and a National Book Critics Circle Award and “Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb” was one of three finalists for a Pulitzer Prize for history.
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2006 M.F.A. Visiting faculty; Award-winning novelist and screenwriter Russell Banks was the university’s 2006 visiting writer. His works include “Affliction,” which was made into an award-winning movie starring Nick Nolte and James Coburn, and “The Sweet Hereafter,”“Cloudsplitter” and “Searching for Survivors.”
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