Award-winning authors and 2024 Ellmann Lecturers, Natasha Trethewey and Fintan O’Toole, join Geraldine Higgins, Director of the Ellmann Lectures, for a conversation on their creative process, March 5, 2024 in the Emerson Concert Hall of the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. The Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature, now among the most prominent in North America, were established in honor of Richard Ellmann (1918–1987), who served Emory University as the first Robert W. Woodruff Professor from 1980 to 1987. The 2024 Ellmann Lectures honored the 10th anniversary of Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney’s death. Chosen by Ellmann himself, Heaney gave the inaugural lectures at Emory in 1988. Trethewey and O’Toole both have a personal connection to Heaney and, for the lectures, consider the relationship between art, life, and writing in various forms and contexts. This event is also part of the Rosemary Magee Creativity Conversation Series. ellmann.emory.edu arts.emory.edu/creativityconversations