Louise Gluck

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Annie Ernaux

Two female Nobel Prize in Literature winners in the last five years have been associated with Yale University in New Haven: Louise Glück (2020) and Annie Ernaux (2022). Glück joined the Yale faculty, in 2004, as the Rosenkranz Writer-in-Residence. She was the U.S. Poet Laureate in 2003-2004. Ernaux, who is French, published Look at the Lights, My Love, about the phenomenon of the big-box superstore, with Yale University Press in 2023.

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The summer Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald lived in Connecticut inspired one of the world’s most beloved novels: The Great Gatsby. Novelist Barbara Probst Solomon, raised in the Compo Beach area of Westport where the Fitzgeralds rented a cottage, posits that protagonist Jay Gatsby was based on an eccentric millionaire who lived in Westport during the same time as F. Scott and Zelda. The New Yorker selected the documentary, Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story, featuring Sam Waterston, as one of the Best Movies of 2020. You can watch it no on Apple TV+.

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