Glenn Schaeffer graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with both a BA and MA from the University of California at Irvine. He earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa and received an honorary Litterarum Doctor (Litt.D.) from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and his Legum Doctor (LL.D.) from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
He is the founding patron of The International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington. The Institute’s Schaeffer Fellowship in Comparative Literature has sponsored numerous writers, including Eleanor Catton, winner of the prestigious Man Booker prize in 2013 and Alice Miller, winner of the BNZ Katherine Mansfield Award. He also founded the Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. With the Black Mountain Institute at UNLV, his role as an ardent advocate for the cause of free speech has assisted writers of conscience by establishing Las Vegas as the first U.S. City of Asylum.
Glenn talks about finding inspiration.
Inspiration comes from many sources. Above, he shares some methods he uses.
Books by or featuring Glenn Schaeffer
The links below will take you to books Glenn has written or has been featured in. As he is currently writing his auto-fiction as well as finishing his first novel, there will be more to come. Watch this space…
We Wanted To Be Writers
Co-Authored by Glenn
Super Casino
Features Glenn
Winner Takes All
Features Glenn
Schaeffer views literature as a form of social capital. Ideas in books can change how people choose to live and what they’re willing to live for. “This country, today the greatest economic force in world history, wouldn’t exist in the same way if two books, Thomas Paine’s Common Sense and Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, hadn’t been published and widely distributed. These books were community builders par excellence.”
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Notes from Glenn's Scratchpad
Nov 2021 – Glenn Schaeffer