Tracing the evolution of the writer's workshop, Wilbers depicts it as having roots in the midwestern regionalist literary movement of the late nineteenth centur

"We do not pretend to have produced the writers included in this book. Their talent was inevitably shaped by the genes rattling in ancestral closets. We did giv

A vibrant history of the renowned and often controversial Iowa Writers' Workshop and its celebrated alumni and faculty As the world's preeminent creative writin

During and just after World War II, an influential group of American writers and intellectuals projected a vision for literature that would save the free world.

This collection consists of forty-three stories, each with an introduction by writers from the Iowa Workshop. It also includes original essays on both the writi