Susan Diamond
Susan Diamond was a fellow at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and spent seventeen years at the Los Angeles Times as a feature writer and columnist. She has worked for numerous publications, including The New Yorker, Time, People, and the Village ... [... more]
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Tracy Kidder
Tracy Kidder graduated from Harvard, studied at the University of Iowa, and served as an army officer in Vietnam. He has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Award, and many other literary prizes. He lives in ... [... more]
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Kim Edwards
Kim Edwards is the author of the short story collection , which was an alternate for the 1998 PEN/Hemingway Award, and she has won both the Whiting Award and the Nelson Algren Award. A graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop, she currently teaches ... [... more]
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Eve Adamson
Eve Adamson has authored or coauthored more than forty books, including The Mediterranean Diet. She lives with her family in Iowa City, where she cooks, gardens, and writes about food and holistic health. [... more]
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Joseph P. Zwack
Joseph P. Zwack is an active Roman Catholic and practicing civil attorney in Dubuque, Iowa. He is married, the father of three children, and holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Iowa Law School. [... more]
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Frances de Pontes Peebles
Frances de Pontes Peebles was born in Pernambuco, Brazil. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she has received several awards, including Brazil's Sacatar Artist's Fellowship and the Michener-Copernicus ... [... more]
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Michelle Huneven
Michelle Huneven was born in Altadena, California, and studied at Grinnell College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She makes her living as a freelance writer and restaurant critic, her work appearing in the When thirty-three-year-old Alice Black ... [... more]
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Kristin Kladstrup
Oscar Martin was fourteen when he mysteriously disappeared from his Iowa farmhouse in 1914. His sister claimed Oscar had rowed out to sea... Oscar Martin was fourteen when he mysteriously disappeared from his Iowa farmhouse home in June ... [... more]
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Donigan Merritt
Donigan Merritt is a graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop and the author of seven novels, among them One Easy Piece (1981) and My Sister's Keeper (1983). He lives in Washington, DC. When Morgan Cary flies home to Hawaii after a decade spent in ... [... more]
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Amity Gaige
Amity Gaige is a graduate of Brown University and the Iowa Writer's Workshop. She is the author of the acclaimed novel O My Darling, chosen by the National Book Foundation for its "5 Under 35" program to recognize the achievements of five ... [... more]
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Stephanie Spinner
I was born in Davenport, Iowa, and grew up in Rockaway Beach, New York. I read straight through my childhood, with breaks for food, sleep, and the bathroom. I went to college in Bennington, Vermont, moved to New York City, and took a job in ... [... more]
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Ryan Coonerty
This poignant, first-of-its-kind book celebrates words that define America's storied past and symbolize the drive of its people—from the boardrooms of Manhattan to the farm fields of Iowa. Author Ryan Coonerty highlights profound phrases ... [... more]
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