Writers Speak | Diane Williams in conversation with Maggie Doherty

Diane Williams

Date and Time

December 3, 2026
06:00PM - 07:30PM EST

Location

Sever Hall, Room 113

Photo Credit: Brigitte Lacombe

Speaker: Diane Williams
In conversation with Maggie Doherty

About the Speakers

Diane Williams is the author of several collections of short fiction and the founder and editor of the literary annual NOON. An omnibus of her work, The Collected Stories of Diane Williams, was published in 2018. I Liked Rex is her twelfth book of fiction. The NOON archive, as well as Williams's personal literary archive, was acquired in 2014 by the Lilly Library. She lives in New York City.

Maggie Doherty is a Visiting Lecturer on English at Harvard University. She is the author of The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s (2020). Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times, and the Nation, among other publications. 

About the Series: Writers Speak

Writers Speak, convened by Duncan White, Director of Strategy and Programs for the Arts and Humanities, brings significant contemporary writers to speak on campus, with the intention of fostering literary conversation.