#  Writers Speak | Diane Williams in conversation with Maggie Doherty 

 



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####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **December 3, 2026** 

 06:00PM - 07:30PM EST 

####  pin\_drop 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**](https://english.fas.harvard.edu/people/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 "Writers Speak")

[Writers Speak](https://mahindrahumanities.harvard.edu/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.



 

 



 

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