The 31st annual Key West Literary Seminar—“Writers on Writers”—will include two independent sessions: January 10–13 and January 17–20, 2013. Through imaginative attention to the life and work of literary icons like Emerson, Thoreau, Dickinson, Cheever, and Hemingway—under the guidance of the contemporary writers and scholars who know them best—we hope to enter into the minds of some of the great writers of our history, and to experience their greatness as our own.
Panelists at “Writers on Writers” will include some of today’s keenest biographers, novelists, and poets, including James Atlas, Blake Bailey, Billy Collins, Mark Doty, Geoff Dyer, Brad Gooch, Lyndall Gordon, Paul Hendrickson, Pico Iyer, Kate Moses, Ann Napolitano, Jay Parini, Robert D. Richardson, Phyllis Rose, Julie Salamon, Alexandra Styron, Judith Thurman, Colm Tóibín, Edmund White, and Brenda Wineapple.
