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Article: Frank Conroy, ran Iowa Writers' Workshop
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 7, 2005
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IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Frank Conroy, the memoirist and longtime
director of the celebrated University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop,
died Wednesday. He was 69.
Mr. Conroy died at his home in Iowa City of colon cancer, said
James Alan McPherson, acting co-director of the workshop. "Frank took
a great program and made it an extraordinary one," McPherson said.
Mr. Conroy won literary praise in 1967 for Stop-Time, which
chronicled his growing up in homes that included a Florida shack, a
snowy cabin and a tiny Manhattan apartment. The impressionistic
memoir was nominated for a National Book Award. It was a classic
story of innocence, violence and violation, as elemental as his
mastery of the yo-yo and ...