Yale University Press will publish the Windham-Campbell Prizes's annual keynote addresses in a new series titled "Why I Write.” The first volume will feature the critic Hilton Als, to be followed by a second volume by Patti Smith.
Launched in 2013, the Windham-Campbell Prizes are administered by Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. The prizes, each worth $150,000, are awarded in three categories –– fiction, nonfiction, and drama ––to honor and support writers anywhere in the world writing in English, and can recognize merit or promise.
