WRITERS featuring photographs by Nancy Crampton in Atlanta on Jul 2, 2012 12:00 AM

This free exhibition features photographs of a variety of writers – poets, authors, playwrights, journalists and others – taken by acclaimed photographer Nancy Crampton, and pairs them with related materials from Emory’s Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL). “WRITERS” includes photographs of such literary icons as Anne Sexton, James Baldwin, Salman Rushdie, Truman Capote, Toni Morrison, Seamus Heaney, Gwendolyn Brooks, Gloria Steinem, Tennessee Williams, and Margaret Atwood. Crampton, known for her ability to capture the essence of her subject in her pictures, has served as the official photographer of the Unterberg Poetry Center in New York City for more than 20 years. A range of individuals of varying ages, levels of experience, and fields of interest – 18 in all – were selected to guest curate the exhibition. They include Rosemary Magee, vice president and secretary of Emory University; Sally Wolff King, author and adjunct professor of English at Emory; poet Jake Adam York, visiting faculty scholar at Emory; Daren Wang, executive director of the AJC Decatur Book Festival; Emory faculty, graduate students, undergraduates, alumni and staff; and two students from the Advanced Placement Literature course at Druid Hills High School. Directions and parking: http://bit.ly/fishburneparking Hours: http://web.library.emory.edu/about/library-hours More information: http://bit.ly/writers-crampton-exhibition