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After a grueling and public selection process, Lan Samantha Chang, Briggs-Copeland lecturer on English and American Literature and Language, has been selected to direct the University of Iowa (UI) Writers’ Workshop, beginning in January 2006. A graduate of the program, Chang is the first female as well as the first Asian-American director of the Workshop...
Under the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Workshop was the first creative writing degree program in the U.S. and will have been in existence for 70 years...
...Workshop began a selection process in January for a new director after Chang’s predecessor, Frank Conroy, announced he was stepping down due to an illness. He has recently passed away...
Conroy, who was the fourth director of the program since its inception, taught Chang, along with Robinson and James A. McPherson, also a co-director of the Workshop...
...modern confessional memoirs with his acclaimed 1967 debut Stop-Time, an unsentimental chronicle of his painfully nomadic, picaresque childhood; of colon cancer; in Iowa City. The sometime jazz pianist mentored scores of young writers, many of whom became successful novelists, during 18 years as head of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the country's most prestigious creative-writing program...