Article: Frank Conroy, 69, writer who ran Iowa workshop OBITUARY

Article: Frank Conroy; Author and Iowa Writers' Workshop ...
The Washington Post;  April 7, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Frank Conroy, who exerted a strong influence ... described his life growing up in New York as the son of an absent and ... Mr. Conroy returned to New York, an orphan in all but name ... and adolescence." In the New York Times, James Atlas said ...

Article: That old sweet song A novel of music and growing up by ...
The Boston Globe;  September 19, 1993 ;     700+ words ...BODY & SOUL By Frank Conroy. Houghton Mifflin ... since the publication of Frank Conroy's autobiographical ... description of mid-century New York to its depiction of a ... the drawing rooms of New York's mannered elite ...

Article: Author Frank Conroy Dies at Age 69
AP Online;  April 7, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... Iowa Writer's Workshop Director Frank Conroy speaks during an interview in his ... AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) Frank Conroy, who directed the University of ... Conroy also played piano in clubs in New York for several years and befriended ...

Transcript: Alan Cheuse Reviews `Body and Soul' by Frank ...
NPR All Things Considered;  September 1, 1993 ;     484 words ... ... 00-0000 NOAH ADAMS, Host: Frank Conroy has been writing for nearly 30 years ... driver mother. It's the 1940s. New York City is in the throes of renovation ... ADAMS: The book is Body and Soul by Frank Conroy. Novelist Alan Cheuse teaches writing ...

Article: Frank Conroy is literary sensation again with first ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  November 10, 1993 ;     700+ words ...Single-handedly, writer Frank Conroy contradicts the cliche that goes ... ended and his mother died. He left New York and moved to Nantucket, where he ... was raised by a single mother in New York City in the years following World ...

Article: Frank Conroy, ran Iowa Writers' Workshop
Chicago Sun-Times;  April 7, 2005 ;     700+ words ...IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Frank Conroy, the memoirist and longtime director of the celebrated University ... Arts. A lover of jazz, Mr. Conroy also played piano in clubs in New York for several years. Conroy's friend David Halberstam once called ...

Article: Frank Conroy to Leave Iowa Writing Program
AP Online;  August 23, 2004 ;     486 words ...HILLEL ITALIE, AP National Writer AP Online 08-23-2004 Dateline: NEW YORK Frank Conroy, the longtime head of the celebrated University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, will step down at the end of the year, The Associated ...