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| | Visiting Hurst Professors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | An endowed chair, the Hurst Visiting Professorship brings to campus annually four or more distinguished writers. |
 | | Recent Hurst Professors have included poets Frank Bidart, Louise Gluck, Linda Gregerson, Lyn Hejinian, Heather McHugh, Arthur Sze and Jay Wright and fiction writers Amy Bloom, Tony Earley, Amy Hempel, Michael Martone, Hilary Mantel, Sigrid Nunez and Joy Williams. |
 | | The Hurst Professorship is made possible by a bequest of the novelist Fannie Hurst, an alumna of Washington University. |
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