NYPL Welcomes First Class
of Scholars and Writers
The first class of fellows appointed to the New York Public Library’s Center for Scholars and Writers began their residency September 13. The 15 fellows, chosen from over 226 applicants from 31 countries, were installed in computer-equipped offices in a newly renovated suite of rooms in the library’s landmark Humanities and Social Sciences Library on Fifth Avenue. Each scholar also received a stipend of $50,000.
“Our first year’s class will, I trust, consider themselves pioneers in a great, and I hope long-lived, experiment,” said Peter Gay, the center’s director, “and I look forward not just to what they will turn out, but also to what they can teach us. It should be fascinating.”
The fellows are: architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable; history professor Marion Kaplan; fiction writer Francine Prose; history professor Sven Beckert; writer Paul Berman; historian D. Graham Burnett; historian Kathleen Cleaver; English literature scholar Pamela Clemit; humanities professor Andrew Delbanco; technology historian Gregory K. Dreicer; sociologist Christian Fleck; writer Anthony Holden; novelist Allen Kurzweil; professor of pediatrics Howard Markel; and writer Harvey Sachs.
Posted September 20, 1999.
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