Rebecca Makkai and Lance Richardson

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC VIRTUALLY | Rebecca Makkai and Lance Richardson will read from their recent books as part of the Writers Reading series.

Rebecca Makkai is the author of the New York Times bestselling I Have Some Questions for You, as well as the novels The Great Believers (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and winner of the ALA Carnegie Medal), The Borrower and The Hundred-Year House, and the story collection Music for Wartime. A Guggenheim Fellow, Rebecca teaches at Northwestern University and Middlebury College and is Artistic Director of StoryStudio Chicago.

Lance Richardson is the author of House of Nutter (2018) and True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen, which will be published internationally in September 2025. He is the recipient of awards and fellowships from, among other places, the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, the Leon Levy Center for Biography, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.