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The University of Kansas was founded in Lawrence in 1865. Helen Rhoda Hoopes taught there, and the school is alma mater to many Kansas writers including Laura Moriarty, Robert Day, Thomas Fox Averill, Steven Hind, May Williams Ward, William Inge, and Denise Low. Edgar Wolfe taught creative writing at the university for many years, and many Kansas writers, like Averill and Day, owe him a great debt. Moriarty teaches creative writing at KU, as well.
Novelist William S. Burroughs spent the last years of his life in what people often call "The River City."
Denise Low, K ansas Poet Laureate for 2007-08, makes her home in Lawrence and is interim dean of the College of Humanities and Arts at Haskell Indian Nations University. She has written a book indexing all the Lawrence sites associated with Langston Hughes and the years he spent there.