Iowa Writers' Workshop
The Iowa Writers' Workshop, officially the Program in Creative Writing, is a renowned course in creative writing at the University of Iowa.
The program began in 1936 with the gathering of poets and prose - writers under the direction of Wilbur Schramm. Graduates will receive a Master of Fine Arts.
Graduates of the Iowa Writers' Workshop have won numerous Pulitzer Prizes and National Book Awards and other major literary awards. In 2003, the workshop was the first institution, the National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Pulitzer Prize winner among the graduates and faculty
Fiction
- Robert Penn Warren, 1947 Pulitzer for All the King 's Men, former faculty member
- Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose for 1972 Pulitzer, MA, 1932; PhD, English, 1935
- James Alan McPherson, 1977 Pulitzer for Elbow Room, MFA, 1969; Faculty Member
- John Cheever, 1979 Pulitzer for The Stories of John Cheever, former faculty member
- Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres 1992 Pulitzer for, MA, 1975; MFA, English, 1976; PhD, English, 1978.
- Philip Roth, 1998 Pulitzer for American Pastoral, former lecturer.
- Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer in 1999 for The Hours ( The Hours ), MFA, English, 1980.
- Marilynne Robinson, 2005 Pulitzer for Gilead, lecturer.
- Paul Harding, 2010 Pulitzer for Tinkers
Journalism
- Tracy Kidder, 1982 Pulitzer in general nonfiction for The Soul of a New Machine, MFA, 1974.
Poetry
- Karl Shapiro, 1945 Pulitzer for V -Letter and Other Poems, former lecturer
- Robert Lowell, 1947 Pulitzer for Lord Weary 's Castle, 1974 Pulitzer for The Dolphin, former lecturer
- Robert Penn Warren, 1958 Pulitzer for Poems 1954-56, Now and Then, 1980 Pulitzer for Poems 1976-78, former lecturer
- W. D. Snodgrass, 1960 Pulitzer for Heart 's Needle, BA, 1949; MA, 1951; MFA, 1953
- John Berryman, 1965 Pulitzer for 77 Dream Songs, former lecturer
- Anthony Hecht, 1968 Pulitzer for The Hard Hours, attended workshop not finish
- Donald Justice, 1980 Pulitzer for Selected Poems, alumnus and former lecturer
- Carolyn Kizer, 1985 Pulitzer for Yin, former lecturer
- Rita Dove, 1987 Pulitzer for Thomas and Beulah, MFA, 1977
- Mona Van Duyn, 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Near Changes, MA, English, 1943
- James Tate, 1992 Pulitzer for Selected Poems, MFA, 1967
- Louise Luck, 1993 Pulitzer for The Wild Iris, former faculty member
- Philip Levine, 1995 Pulitzer for The Simple Truth, MFA, 1957; former lecturer
- Jorie Graham, 1996 Pulitzer for The Dream of the Unified Field, MFA, English, 1978; former lecturer
- Charles Wright, 1998 Pulitzer for Black Zodiac, MFA, 1963
- Mark beach, 1999 Pulitzer for Blizzard of One, MA, 1962; former lecturer
- Robert Hass, 2008 Pulitzer for Time and Materials, frequent guest - lecturer
- Philip Schultz, Pulitzer in 2008 for failure, MFA, English, 1971