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Home / Programs / Guest Speakers / Larry Beinhart

Larry Beinhart

Screenwriter and award-winning author

Larry Beinhart  Larry visited with students at Amherst in Summer 2010

Larry Beinhart is best known for Wag the Dog (the book on which the film starring Robert DeNiro and Dustin Hoffman was based). He has published nine novels and two non-fiction books. He's won two Edgars, a Gold Dagger, the Grand Prix de Literature Policier, and has been nominated for several others. His most recent book, Salvation Boulevard, was made into a movie starring Pierce Brosnan, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Marisa Tomei, Greg Kinnear, and Jim Gaffigan.  Four of his screenplays have been optioned.

Larry’s articles have appeared in the NY Times, LA Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, the Baltimore Sun, Huffington  Post, Alternet, Buzzflash, Common Dreams and many others.

He is a Fulbright Fellow, a member of senior common room Wadham College, Oxford University, and is a part time ski instructor. 

For further information about Larry Beinhart, please visit his website.


"I am deeply impressed by many aspects of this program, including the warmth and professionalism of the staff, the rigor and creativity of the curriculum, and the physical beauty of its setting. But what impresses me most, are the students themselves."

Dr. Debby Applegate, Pulitzer Prize-winning author

"Every summer, all I have to do is mosey on down from my hilltop home overlooking Amherst College, and walk into an ongoing conversation about the Big Stuff. It always feels like an intellectual transfusion."

Dr. Joseph J. Ellis, Pulitzer Prize-winning author

"I will mark Amherst as my most memorable event of the year, simply because of the smartest and most generous kids I was surrounded with. I wish they could be my students forever..." "

Da Chen, award-winning, best-selling author

"What a terrific curriculum and an enthusiastic group of young people. Made me want to drop everything and sign up."

Barry Eisler, best-selling author

"The students were such an engaged and smart and interesting group. I really enjoyed talking to them but mostly just appreciated being asked such a varied array of questions. It was a lot of fun."

Jacob Lewis, former managing editor of The New Yorker magazine and co-founder of Figment.com

"The Great Books program is a midsummer night's dream- I adored the kids and it all felt so alive and was so much fun! The faculty was warm and embracing. So important to keep literature alive and connect with kids who want to read books! "

Laura Shaine Cunningham Memoirist, novelist, playwright and journalist

"I enjoyed talking to and listening to the your kids. They are an impressive bunch. "

Dr. Richard Reeves Award-winning author, journalist and documentary filmmaker

"I loved my experience with the Great Books Summer Program. The students were brilliant and involved even beyond my expectations, really the ideal young audience for a writer. "

Peter Straub, Award-winning author

"I give a lot of talks to a lot of groups all over the country and world, but I've never had a more engaged, interested and interesting audience than the students at the Great Books Summer Program. They were clearly primed to learn and think. I hope I gave them some useful ideas about writing and the writing life; I know they inspired me. "

Kurt Andersen, Award-winning author, editor and co-creator of Studio 360 radio show

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