Richard Hawley

Dr. Hawley has a national reputation both as educator and as author. With consistent freshness and enthusiasm, he has lectured and spoken extensively on child development and topical social issues. He is one of the founders and past president of Boys' Schools, an international association of schools and individuals dedicated to the education of boys in schools designed specifically for them. He has written more than a dozen works of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, including the novel The...See more

Dr. Hawley has a national reputation both as educator and as author. With consistent freshness and enthusiasm, he has lectured and spoken extensively on child development and topical social issues. He is one of the founders and past president of Boys' Schools, an international association of schools and individuals dedicated to the education of boys in schools designed specifically for them. He has written more than a dozen works of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, including the novel The Headmaster's Papers, which won several literary prizes, including a Bread Loaf Writers Conference Fellowship for First Fiction, and remains standard fare in the private school world. His non-fiction works include The Purposes of Pleasure, Seeing Things, The Big Issues in the Adolescent Journey, and Boys Will Be Men. His published poetry collections include With Love to My Survivors and St. Julian. His most recent book prior to Paul & Juliana, The Headmaster's Wife, was published in 2000. He taught fiction and non-fiction writing at Middlebury College's Bread Loaf Writers Conference for ten years. He also reviews books for The Cleveland Plain Dealer. See less