Frank Conroy
Novelist, Author
1936 – 2005
Who was Frank Conroy?
Frank Conroy was an American author, born in New York, New York to an American father and a Danish mother. He published five books, including the highly acclaimed memoir Stop-Time. Published in 1967, this ultimately made Conroy a noted figure in the literary world. The book was nominated for the National Book Award.
Conroy graduated from Haverford College, and was director of the influential Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa for 18 years, from 1987 until 2005, where he was also F. Wendell Miller Professor. He was previously the director of the literature program at the National Endowment for the Arts from 1982 to 1987.
Conroy's published works included: the memoir Stop-Time; a collection of short stories, Midair; a novel, Body and Soul, which is regarded as one of the finest evocations of the experience of being a musician; a collection of essays and commentaries, Dogs Bark, but the Caravan Rolls On: Observations Then and Now; and a travelogue, Time and Tide: A Walk Through Nantucket. His fiction and non-fiction appeared in such journals as The New Yorker, Esquire, GQ, Harper's Magazine and Partisan Review.
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- Born
- Jan 15, 1936
New York City - Spouses
- Patty Ferguson
- Maggie Lee
( - 2005/04/06)
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts, Haverford College
Linguistics
( - 1958) - Literature
- Bachelor of Arts, Haverford College
- Lived in
- Iowa City
( - 2005/04/06)
- Iowa City
- Died
- Apr 6, 2005
Iowa City
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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