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<p>I’m sure some alumni had a good laugh reading that. Multiple very famous authors teaching Expos? I mean, I’ve heard of John Updike teaching a creative writing class in the summer school, long ago. But published, famous authors teaching Expos in recent decades? Here’s the faculty list:</p>
<p>[HERS</a> Output](<a href=“http://webdocs.registrar.fas.harvard.edu/courses/ExpositoryWriting.html]HERS”>http://webdocs.registrar.fas.harvard.edu/courses/ExpositoryWriting.html)</p>
<p>The head of the program and his predecessor are published authors… of books on how to teach expository writing. The instructors are (very) temporary adjuncts, have a high turnover, typically are graduate students or recent undergrads who stayed in Cambridge, or poet/writer/journalist aspirants who may or may not make it. Not established, famous or “some very famous” authors. </p>
<p>You might be confusing the required and entirely pedestrian Expository Writing first-year class, taught by generally pedestrian faculty who are better described as “writing instructors” than “published authors”, with the (restricted-enrollment) courses in creative writing.</p>