Writers about writers this month engage the attention of ATLANTIC critic Louis Kronenberger. He illuminates the literary biographer’s problem in deciding whether to write about a man who wrote books or about the books a man wrote.

Each year writers are finding refuge on university campuses in ever increasing numbers. What the writers, and the universities, get out of these encounters is described by Donald Hall, a poet, critic, and editor who now teaches English at the University of Michigan.

An Atlantic writer celebrated the life and literary career of the American poet on the 100th anniversary of his birth.