Columbia University received a gift of $800,000 from the Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation in late March of this year. $500,000 will go to the Henfield Foundation Scholarship Fund created in 2009, which supports fellowships for students in Columbia’s MFA program, and $300,000 will establish an endowment for the Henfield Prize, which has annually awarded $10,000 to a graduate fiction writing student at each of five participating universities.

The five schools that have been selected over the years to award the Henfield include Columbia University, the University of Iowa, the University of California at Irvine, University of Michigan, and University of Virginia. Past winners of the Henfield Prize include Walter Mosley, Mona Simpson, and Ann Patchett.

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