Editing Bread Loaf Writers' Conference (section)

[[File:The_Bread_Loaf_School_of_English_at_the_Bread_Loaf_Inn_at_Middlebury_College’s_Bread_Loaf_Mountain_campus_in_Ripton,_Vermont_01.jpg|thumb|The Bread Loaf Inn in Vermont hosts the Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.]]
The '''Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers' Conference''' is an [[authors%27_conference|author's conference]] held every summer at the Bread Loaf Inn, near [[Bread Loaf Mountain (Vermont)|Bread Loaf Mountain]], east of [[Middlebury, Vermont]]. Founded in 1926, it has been called by ''[[The New Yorker]]'' "the oldest and most prestigious [[List of writers' conferences|writers' conference]] in the country."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lailalalami.com/2005/bread-loaf-diaries/|title=Bread Loaf Diaries|last=Lalami|first=Laila|date=2005-08-16|website=lailalalami.com}}</ref> Bread Loaf is a program of [[Middlebury College]] and at its inception was closely associated with [[Robert Frost]], who lived in nearby [[Ripton, Vermont|Ripton]] and attended a total of 29 sessions.