He lives with his wife, the artist Mary Hawley, in Ripton Vermont.Seventy-four distinguished writers tell personal tales of books loved and lost-great books overlooked, under-read, out of print, stolen, scorned, extinct, or otherwise out of commission.Ĭompiled by the editors of Brick: A Literary Magazine, Lost Classics is a readers delight: an intriguing and entertaining collection of eulogies for lost books.
He has addressed audiences at schools, colleges, educational conferences, and public forums throughout the United States, Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand. For ten years he taught fiction and non-fiction writing at The Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and he continues to teach writers in a variety of settings. Hawley's essays, articles and poems have appeared in dozens of magazines and journals including The Atlantic, American Film, America, Orion, Commonweal, The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, and The New England Journal of Medicine.
Recent non-fiction books include BOYS WILL BE MEN, BEYOND THE ICARUS FACTOR, and (with Michael Reichert) REACHING BOYS/TEACHING BOYS.
Hawley's most recent collection of poems is TWENTY-ONE VISITS WITH A DARKLY SUN TANNED ANGEL. John Irving dedicated a chapter to the novel in Michael Ondaatje's anthology LOST CLASSICS. His first novel, THE HEADMASTER'S PAPERS, won a number of literary prizes.
The retired headmaster of Cleveland's University School and founding president of the International Boys' School Coalition (IBSC), he has published more than twenty books, including several novels, collections of poetry, and non-fiction works, principally about children, schools, and learning. Richard Hawley is a lifelong teacher and writer.
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