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Hosted by the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, Arizona State University

To celebrate the exceptional contribution of the United States of America to world literature and culture, each year the festival assembles distinguished novelists, writers and speakers to lecture, debate and discuss the history, current standing and possible evolution of American letters and society.

The founding partners of this programme are the Bodleian Libraries, Arizona State University, and the Rothermere American Institute of the University of Oxford.

The dinner will be staged in the dramatic interior of the 15th-century Divinity School and provides an opportunity to meet visiting American speakers as well as leading authorities from the UK on all aspects of American studies.