For over 50 years, the Writers Series program at St. Lawrence University has welcomed all varieties of authors, including Pulitzer Prize winners. Join us as we kick off the 2025-26 season by welcoming New York Times bestselling author, academic, and journalist Jeff Sharlet. The event is free and open to the public.
Jeff Sharlet
Jeff Sharlet is the New York Times bestselling author and editor of eight books of creative nonfiction and photography, including The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Family, adapted into a Netflix documentary series of the same name; and This Brilliant Darkness. Sharlet is a contributing editor for Vanity Fair and an editor-at-large for VQR. He has also written for The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Rolling Stone, The Nation, New York, and other publications. His writing on Russia’s anti-LGBTQIA+ crusade earned the National Magazine Award and his writing on anti-LGBTQIA+ campaigns in Uganda earned the Molly National Journalism Prize and the Outright International’s Outspoken Award. Sharlet is the Frederick Sessions Beebe ’35 Professor in the Art of Writing at Dartmouth College.
Learn more about Jeff at his website.
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