Charles Pratt '52 (left) and Elias Kulukundis '55
Forty years ago, the first manuscripts arrived in plain manila envelopes. They came from aspiring novelists and poets and playwrights eager to spend a year at Phillips Exeter.
Applications for the Bennett Fellowship have arrived each December since (the total number of applications is around 200 annually), and former fellows have gone on to publish more than 70 books between them.
What the fellowship offers is as significant in 2008 as it was in 1968, when the first Bennett Fellow came to campus: the gift of time and the permission to focus on nothing but the work of writing.
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