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Leggett, John, 1917-....

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John Leggett was born November 11, 1917, in New York, N.Y. to Bleecker Noel and Dorothy (Mahar) Leggett. Leggett attended Andover, received an A.B. from Yale University in 1942, and served in the U.S. Naval Reserve from 1942 to 1945. He married Mary Lee Fahnestock in 1948, with whom he had three children. They divorced in 1986, and Leggett married Edwina Bennington of San Francisco. Leggett was an editor and publicity director for Houghton Mifflin Company in Boston from ...

Engle, Paul, 1908-1991

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Paul Engle was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on October 12, 1908. Engle attended Coe College in Cedar Rapids, where he graduated cum laude in 1931, emphasizing English literature, American history and languages. In 1932, Paul Engle received his M.A. from the University of Iowa. In the fall of 1933, Paul Engle received the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. He sailed for England, enrolled in Merton College at Oxford University, and began studies under the poet Edmund Blunden. He was awarded a second M...

Starbuck, George, 1931-

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Poet and college professor; b. George Edwin Beiswanger. From the description of Papers of George Starbuck, 1966-1971. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 233108945 From the description of Papers, 1966-1971. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 28412030 Starbuck was an American poet, editor at Houghton Mifflin, and professor at Boston University. From the description of Poems, 1957-1964. (Harvard University). WorldCat record...

Conroy, Frank, 1936-2005

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Frank Conroy was born in 1936. He graduated from Haverford College in 1958. He taught at George Mason University, M.I.T., and Brandeis University before becoming director of the Writers' Workshop. In addition to the two works inventoried here, he has also published a collection of stories, Midair (1985) and his work has appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, GQ, Harper's, Partisan Review, and elsewhere. From the description of Frank Conroy manuscripts. (University of Iowa Libraries). W...

Iowa Writers' Workshop

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The Iowa Writers' Workshop, or Program in Creative Writing, in the University of Iowa Dept. of English, grew out of earlier informal literary interest and the university's acceptance of creative work in the arts. The name Writers' Workshop was first used in the 1939 university catalog. Successive directors have been Wilbur L. Schramm, Paul Engle, George Starbuck, John Leggett, and Frank Conroy. From the description of Records of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, 1965-[ongoing]. (University...