A community of writers : Paul Engle and the Iowa Writers' Workshop / edited by Robert Dana.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dana, Robert, 1929-2010.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Engle, Paul, 1908-1991--Friends and associates.

Engle, Paul.

Engle, Paul, 1908-1991.

Creative writing (Higher education)--Iowa--History--20th century.

Creative writing (Higher education).

Authorship--Social aspects.

Authorship.

Friends and associates.

Iowa.

History.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Authorship--Social aspects--Iowa.

Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 294 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [1999]

Summary:

The book's three sections mingle myth and history with style and grace and no small amount of humor. The beginning essays are given over to memories of Paul Engle in his heyday. The second group focuses particularly on those teachers -- Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Kurt Vonnegut, for example -- who made the workshop hum on a day-to-day basis. Finally, the third section is devoted to storytelling: tall tales, vignettes, surprises, sober and not-so-sober moments. Engle's own essay, "The Writer and the Place, " describes his "simple, and yet how reckless" conviction that "the creative imagination in all of the arts is as important, as congenial, and as necessary, as the historical study of all the arts."

ISBN:

0877456682

OCLC:

40251619