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

by Eric Olsen and Glenn Schaeffer

Book Overview

We Wanted to be Writers is a rollicking and insightful blend of original 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, criticizing, drinking, and debating in the classrooms and barrooms of Iowa City-were the younger versions of writers who became John...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 160239735X
• ISBN13: 9781602397354
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"