R. Bretley Lott
English

1994 Distinguished Research Award

Bret Lott taught Creative Writing and Literature in the English Department at the College of Charleston, beginning in 1986 as an Assistant Professor. He was named Author-in-Residence in 1990 and promoted to Professor in 1997. He established the department’s minor in Creative Writing.

Mr. Lott earned his B.A. degree at California State College at Long Beach and his M.F.A. at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he studied writing under the late James Baldwin.

He was an Instructor at Ohio State University and served on the faculty of the M.F.A. Program in Writing at Vermont College.

Mr. Lott left the College in 2004 to assume the position of editor of The Southern Review and a full professorship at Louisiana State University. He is the critically acclaimed author of several novels: The Man Who Owned Vermont, A Stranger's House, Jewel, Reed's Beach and The Hunt Club; a collection of stories, A Dream of Old Leaves; and the memoir Fathers, Sons and Brothers.