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We Wanted to Be Writers: Life, Love, and Literature at the Iowa Writers' Workshop

We Wanted to Be Writers: Life, Love, and Literature at the Iowa Writers' Workshop

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We Wanted to Be Writers is a rollicking and insightful blend of interviews, commentary, advice, gossip, anecdotes, analyses, history, and asides with nearly thirty graduates and teachers at the now legendary Iowa Writers' Workshop between 1974 and 1978. Among the talents that emerged in those years—writing, passionately jousting, criticizing, drinking, and debating in the classrooms and barrooms of Iowa City—were the young versions of writers who became John Irving, Jane Smiley, T.C. Boyle, Michelle Huneven, Allan Gurganus, Sandra Cisneros, Jayne Anne Phillips, Jennie Fields, Joy Harjo, Joe Haldeman, and many others. We Wanted to Be Writers is chock full of insights and a treasure trove of inspiration for all writers, readers, history lovers, and anyone who ever "wanted to be a writer."

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Language En-US
Published August 1, 2011
Publisher Skyhorse Publishing
ISBN 7553419
Eric Olsen
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Eric Olsen

After spending years working in the corporate world, Eric Olsen finally decided to pursue a lifelong passion for writing. They currently reside in a quiet suburb where they spend most of their time outlining new stories, reading extensively, and occasionally attempting to bake.

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