Iowa Writers' Workshop
The Iowa Writers' Workshop , officially the Program in Creative Writing , is a prestigious creative writing program at the University of Iowa .
The current director is Lan Samantha Chang .
The course began in 1936 with the gathering of poets and prose writers under the direction of Wilbur Schramm . Graduates receive a Master of Fine Arts .
Iowa Writers' Workshop graduates have won numerous Pulitzer and National Book Awards, as well as other major literary awards. In 2003 the workshop was the first institution to receive the National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities .
Pulitzer Prize-winning alumni and faculty
Fiction
- Robert Penn Warren , 1947 Pulitzer for All the King's Men , former faculty member
- Wallace Stegner , 1972 Pulitzer for Angle of Repose , MA, 1932; PhD, English, 1935
- James Alan McPherson , 1977 Pulitzer for Elbow Room , MFA, 1969; Faculty member
- John Cheever , 1979 Pulitzer for The Stories of John Cheever , former faculty member
- Jane Smiley , 1992 Pulitzer for A Thousand Acres , MA, 1975; MFA, English, 1976; PhD, English, 1978.
- Philip Roth , 1998 Pulitzer for American Pastoral , former lecturer.
- Michael Cunningham , Pulitzer in 1999 for The Hours ( The Hours ), MFA, English., 1980
- Marilynne Robinson , 2005 Pulitzer for Gilead , Lecturer.
- Paul Harding , 2010 Pulitzer for Tinkers
journalism
- Tracy Kidder , 1982 Pulitzer in general nonfiction for The Soul of a New Machine , MFA, 1974.
Poetry
- Karl Shapiro , 1945 Pulitzer for V-Letter and Other Poems , former lecturer
- Robert Lowell , 1947 Pulitzer for Lord Weary's Castle , 1974 Pulitzer for The Dolphin , former lecturer
- Robert Penn Warren , 1958 Pulitzer for Poems 1954-56, Now and Then , 1980 Pulitzer for Poems 1976-78 , former lecturer
- WD Snodgrass , 1960 Pulitzer for Heart's Needle , BA, 1949; MA, 1951; MFA, 1953
- John Berryman , 1965 Pulitzer for 77 Dream Songs , former lecturer
- Anthony Hecht , 1968 Pulitzer for The Hard Hours , attended workshops without a degree
- Donald Justice , 1980 Pulitzer for Selected Poems , alumnus and former lecturer
- Carolyn Kizer , 1985 Pulitzer for Yin , former lecturer
- Rita Dove , 1987 Pulitzer for Thomas and Beulah , MFA, 1977
- Mona Van Duyn , 1991 Pulitzer for Near Changes , MA, English, 1943
- James Tate , 1992 Pulitzer for Selected Poems , MFA, 1967
- Louise Glück , 1993 Pulitzer for The Wild Iris , former faculty member
- Philip Levine , 1995 Pulitzer for The Simple Truth , MFA, 1957; former lecturer
- Jorie Graham , 1996 Pulitzer for The Dream of the Unified Field , MFA, English, 1978; former lecturer
- Charles Wright , 1998 Pulitzer for Black Zodiac , MFA, 1963
- Mark Strand , 1999 Pulitzer for Blizzard of One , MA, 1962; former lecturer
- Robert Hass , 2008 Pulitzer for Time and Materials , frequent guest lecturer
- Philip Schultz , 2008 Pulitzer for Failure , MFA, English, 1971
Individual evidence
- ^ Edward J. Delaney: Where Great Writers Are Made. In: The Atlantic . August 2007, accessed February 13, 2018 .
- ↑ MAUREEN HOWARD: CAN WRITING BE TAUGHT IN IOWA? In: The New York Times. May 25, 1986. Retrieved February 13, 2018 .
- ↑ The University of Iowa Writer's Workshop Webpage: About the Workshop ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Tom Grimes: The Workshop: Seven Decades of the Iowa Writers Workshop . Hyperion, August 15, 2001, ISBN 978-0-7868-8672-2 .
- Robert Dana: A community of writers . University of Iowa Press, 1999, ISBN 978-0-87745-668-1 .
- University of Iowa Writers' Workshop Webpage
- http://www.uiowa.edu/admissions/undergrad/after-grad/pulitzers.html
- Historic photos of the Iowa Writers' Workshop from the UI Archives