A Hundred Years
Below is a listing of 100 of the many writers who have attended Bread Loaf over the past century:
1920 and 30s
Robert Frost
Willa Cather
Archibald MacLeish
Stephen Vincent Benet
Louis Untermeyer
Sinclair Lewis
Carson McCullers
Eudora Welty
W. H. Auden
Katherine Anne Porter
1940s
Truman Capote
Theodore Roethke
William Carlos Williams
Ted Morrison
Bernard DeVoto
Wallace Stegner
Richard Wright
1950s
Ralph Ellison
Richard Wilbur
John Ciardi
Julia Child
Anne Sexton
Czeslaw Milosz
Adrienne Rich
Octavio Paz
1960s
William Meredith
Joan Didion
Diane Wakowski
Harry Crews
John Frederick Nims
Dan Wakefield
Richard Ellmann
Shirley Jackson
Romulus Linney
Howard Nemerov
A.R. Ammons
1970s
Joyce Carol Oates
Toni Morrison
Stanley Elkin
John Gardner
Isaac Asimov
Robert Hayden
Judy Blume
Maxine Kumin
Galway Kinnell
1980s
Russell Banks
Erica Jong
Linda Pastan
Tim O’Brien
John Irving
Maxine Kumin
Julia Alvarez
Francine Prose
Donald Justice
Philip Levine
Amy Hempel
Ellen Bryant Voigt
1990s
Edward Hirsch
Garrett Hongo
Michael Collier
Andrea Barrett
Margot Livesey
Charles Baxter
Louise Glück
Gloria Naylor
William Maxwell
Jorie Graham
2000s
Lorrie Moore
Yusef Komunyakaa
Carl Phillips
Stacey D’Erasmo
Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Jhumpa Lahiri
Barry Lopez
Cheryl Strayed
Sigrid Nunez
Patricia Hampl
Lynn Freed
Thomas Mallon
Luis Alberto Urrea
2010s
Percival Everett
Danzy Senna
Eavan Boland
Randall Kenan
Peter Ho Davies
Lan Samantha Chang
Yiyun Li
Natasha Trethewey
David Treuer
Monica Youn
Lauren Groff
2020s
Jericho Brown
Alexander Chee
Christopher Castellani
Vievee Francis
Victor LaValle
Emily Raboteau
Rebecca Makkai
Garth Greenwell
Jamel Brinkley
Ilya Kaminsky