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Zell Foundation Gives $50 Million to Michigan’s Writing Program
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Helen Zell, the wife of billionaire investor Sam Zell, gave $50 million to the University of Michigan for a creative writing program through her family foundation.
The gift, the largest in the history of the school’s College of Literature, Science and the Arts, will permanently fund scholarships and stipends for 22 master’s students in creative writing, the university in Ann Arbor said today on its website. The program, founded in 1982, will be named the Helen Zell Writers’ Program.