Washington, April 5 -- The New York Public Library's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers has selected its 23rd class of Fellows: 15 talented academics, literary artists, and independent scholars. The Fellows were selected from a pool of 506 applicants from 48 countries. The class of 2021 includes:
Academics Julia Foulkes, Kaiama L. Glover, David Greenberg, Karl Jacoby, Matthew Karp, and Nara Milanich;
Poet Michael Prior;
Fiction writers David Wright Faladee, Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Maaza Mengiste, Josephine Rowe, and Madeleine Thien; and
Independent scholars Rich Benjamin, Lewis Hyde, and Avi Steinberg.
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