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Flannery O'Connor, MFA UI Writers' Workshop, 1948. O'Connor was an author, illustrator of children's books and a painter. The opening story in the typescript of her 1947 Master's thesis, "The Geranium," was published as The Geranium: A collection of Short Stories. Other stories, "Train," and "The Heart of the Park" (1948 & 1949) were revised and expanded to become Chapter 1 of Wise Blood; a work for which Paul Engle got funding for her to stay in Iowa City for one-year after receiving her MFA. "The Life You Save May Be Your Own," was selected for the P. Henry Prize Stories, 1954. ( "Notes," Flannery O'Connor: The Complete Stories, 1972, Doubleday, 551-555) "She lived in monastic simplicity, nibbled on cookies while writing ... In many stories O'Connor permits a Joycean epiphany . . a moment of vision in which the main character may clearly see himself for the very first time." (Jean Wylder, [biographer], " Flannery O'Connor: A Reminiscence and Some Letters," North Amer Rev, Spr 1970) O'Connor's literary executor has been Robert Fitzgerald. She lived at 115 E Bloomington Street. 

Jayne Ann Philips, MFA 1976 UI Writers' Workshop, and a Teaching-Writing Fellowship in the Workshop. Philips has also taught at Humboldt State University in California-Arcata. Philips is the recipient of the Fels Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and the 1979 St Lawrence Award for Fiction. Her stories have been selected for inclusion in Pushcart Prize: Best of Small Presses, 1977 and 1979, Best American Short Stories 1979, and Prize Stories 1980: The O Henry Awards. Her first selection of published short stories, Black Tickets, appears in English, Swedish , German and Italian editions. Other publications are, Fast Lanes, Machine Dreams, Counting and Sweethearts. Of Philips, Nadine Gordimer has written, " An exquisite and terrible insight in the hands of one who fakes nothing -- the best short story writer since Eudora Welty." She lived at 505 E Washington Street. 

Philip Roth. instructor 1960 UI Writers' Workshop. He received an AB at Bucknell, and an MA from University of Chicago, 1950. Roth's first story was published in 1958 in the Paris review. He received the National Book Award in 1959 for Goodbye Columbus. After publication of his book, Portnoy's Complaint Ross said, " I am really interested in certain kinds of human beings, who happen to be Jews, and in what occurs when these people band heads against a moral crisis. To write important fiction the experience has to be universal." (Newark Nov/Dec 1969, p 25, 52) It has bee rumoured that while living in Iowa City Roth played on the writer's softball team every Sunday afternoon, where he was viewed with no little envy by some team members because he was not only the best looking but could also hit the ball the farthest. " I don't know where he acquired his big interest in girls, but it must have been after high school graduation." (high-school classmate, Newark, Nov/Dec 1969 p 36) Roth's most recent novel is Deception. While in Iowa City Roth lived on Grant Street just off East Court Street.

Wilbur Schramm, PhD, UI 1932; MA Harvard, 1930. Schramm became the first director of Iowa Writers' Program (1939-1942), and the Director of the School of Journalism (1942-1947). He left Iowa to serve in the Office of War Information in Washington, DC. Returning to teaching in Illinois, Schramm then went on to teach at Stanford. he resigned from Stanford to accept the appointment of Director of Communications at the East-West Institute in Hawaii until his retirement in 1980.He died in Hawaii in 1987. Dr. Cory SerVaas, editor of the Saturday Evening Post wrote of Schramm," ... each time the Post reprints one of his fanciful yarns, I am reminded of thee mischief and fun he brought to the more serious work ethic of Iowa farm kids turned journalists." Schramm's years at UI are related in the 1988 book by Jacqueline Marie Cartier, Wilbur

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Flannery O'Connor, MFA UI Writers' Workshop, 1948. O'Connor was an author, illustrator of children's books and a painter. The opening story in the typescript of her 1947 Master's thesis, "The Geranium," was published as The Geranium: A collection of Short Stories. Other stories, "Train," and "The Heart of the Park" (1948 & 1949) were revised and expanded to become Chapter 1 of Wise Blood; a work for which Paul Engle got funding for her to stay in Iowa City for one-year after receiving her MFA. "The Life You Save May Be Your Own," was selected for the P. Henry Prize Stories, 1954. ( "Notes," Flannery O'Connor: The Complete Stories, 1972, Doubleday, 551-555) "She lived in monastic simplicity, nibbled on cookies while writing ... In many stories O'Connor permits a Joycean epiphany . . a moment of vision in which the main character may clearly see himself for the very first time." (Jean Wylder, [biographer], " Flannery O'Connor: A Reminiscence and Some Letters," North Amer Rev, Spr 1970) O'Connor's literary executor has been Robert Fitzgerald. She lived at 115 E Bloomington Street. Jayne Ann Philips, MFA 1976 UI Writers' Workshop, and a Teaching-Writing Fellowship in the Workshop. Philips has also taught at Humboldt State University in California-Arcata. Philips is the recipient of the Fels Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and the 1979 St Lawrence Award for Fiction. Her stories have been selected for inclusion in Pushcart Prize: Best of Small Presses, 1977 and 1979, Best American Short Stories 1979, and Prize Stories 1980: The O Henry Awards. Her first selection of published short stories, Black Tickets, appears in English, Swedish , German and Italian editions. Other publications are, Fast Lanes, Machine Dreams, Counting and Sweethearts. Of Philips, Nadine Gordimer has written, " An exquisite and terrible insight in the hands of one who fakes nothing -- the best short story writer since Eudora Welty." She lived at 505 E Washington Street. Philip Roth. instructor 1960 UI Writers' Workshop. He received an AB at Bucknell, and an MA from University of Chicago, 1950. Roth's first story was published in 1958 in the Paris review. He received the National Book Award in 1959 for Goodbye Columbus. After publication of his book, Portnoy's Complaint Ross said, " I am really interested in certain kinds of human beings, who happen to be Jews, and in what occurs when these people band heads against a moral crisis. To write important fiction the experience has to be universal." (Newark Nov/Dec 1969, p 25, 52) It has bee rumoured that while living in Iowa City Roth played on the writer's softball team every Sunday afternoon, where he was viewed with no little envy by some team members because he was not only the best looking but could also hit the ball the farthest. " I don't know where he acquired his big interest in girls, but it must have been after high school graduation." (high-school classmate, Newark, Nov/Dec 1969 p 36) Roth's most recent novel is Deception. While in Iowa City Roth lived on Grant Street just off East Court Street. Wilbur Schramm, PhD, UI 1932; MA Harvard, 1930. Schramm became the first director of Iowa Writers' Program (1939-1942), and the Director of the School of Journalism (1942-1947). He left Iowa to serve in the Office of War Information in Washington, DC. Returning to teaching in Illinois, Schramm then went on to teach at Stanford. he resigned from Stanford to accept the appointment of Director of Communications at the East-West Institute in Hawaii until his retirement in 1980.He died in Hawaii in 1987. Dr. Cory SerVaas, editor of the Saturday Evening Post wrote of Schramm," ... each time the Post reprints one of his fanciful yarns, I am reminded of thee mischief and fun he brought to the more serious work ethic of Iowa farm kids turned journalists." Schramm's years at UI are related in the 1988 book by Jacqueline Marie Cartier, Wilbur 16