We are delighted to announce that former Hopwood Awards Program Director and Robert Frost Distinguished University Professor Nicholas Delbanco will deliver the lecture at the Graduate and Undergraduate Hopwood Awards Ceremony on Thursday, April 20, 2017. The ceremony will be held in the Rackham Amphitheatre and will begin at 3:30 p.m. He has published 29 books of fiction and nonfiction, beginning with The Martlet’s Tale, which came out in July 1966. His works include The Countess of Stanlein Restored, What Remains, and the Sherbrookes trilogy. His most recent books are The Art of Youth: Crane, Carrington, Gershwin and the Nature of First Acts; The Years; and Dear Wizard: The Letters of Nicholas Delbanco and Jon Manchip White. His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship and two National Endowment for the Arts Writing Fellowships. Formerly the Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing (now the Helen Zell Writers’ Program), he directed the Hopwood Awards Program for almost 30 years.