Hall of Fame

The Wake Forest Writers Hall of Fame, complete with gallery of the distinguished inductees, can be found outside the Writing Center in ZSR Library.

WORDS AWAKE! is pleased to announce that the following five WFU alumni/ae were formally inducted at the Hall of Fame Banquet on April 9, 2016, with formal remarks by Steve Duincommemorating the occasion:

• Helen Tucker Beckwith (’46)
• Maria Henson (’82)
• William F. McIlwain, Jr. (’49)
• Neil Morgan (’43)
• Penelope Niven (MA ’62, DLitt ’92)

The inaugural class was inducted into the Wake Forest University Writers Hall of Fame in 2012:

• A. R. Ammons
• Maya Angelou
• Elizabeth Jones Brantley
• Russell Brantley
• Will Campbell
• WJ Cash
• EE Folk
• Harold Hayes
• Albert Hunt
• Gerald Johnson
• John Charles McNeil
• Bynum Shaw
• Laurence Stallings
• Edwin G. Wilson
• Emily Herring Wilson

The selection committee welcomes nominations to be considered for future classes of the Wake Forest University Writers Hall of Fame.

Lovers of the Wake Forest University Writers Hall of Fame unite!