Nancy Huddleston Packer (born 1925) is an American writer of short fiction and memoir, who is the Melvin and Bill Lane Professor in the Humanities, Emerita, at Stanford University.
[2] She graduated from Birmingham–Southern College in 1945,[3][4] and gained a master's degree in theology from the University of Chicago in 1947.
[2] In 1957, she married Herbert L. Packer, and moved to California with him when he was appointed to Stanford University as a professor of law.
[17] Packer's literary accomplishments include three short story collections and a memoir, published between 1976 and 1997.
She retired from Stanford University in 1993, having served as the director of the Creative Writing Program and held the esteemed Melvin and Bill Lane Professorship in the Humanities.