Frank Conroy

Born in New York City, Conroy attended Haverford College in Pennsylvania where he received a B.A. degree in 1958. From 1977 to 1978, he served as a visiting professor and visiting lecturer at the University of Iowa. Conroy was the director of the literature program at the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, D.C. from 1981 to 1987. In 1993, he became the director of the UI Writers' Workshop.

Conroy authored of the short story collection Midair (1985) and the autobiography Stop-Time (1967), which earned a nomination for the National Book Award. He was the selector of works published in The Iowa Award: The Best Stories from Twenty Years (1991) and The Iowa Award: The Best Stories, 1991-2000 (2001), and served as the editor of The Eleventh Draft: Craft and the Writing Life from Iowa Writers' Workshop (1999).

A much beloved and remembered director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Frank Conroy passed away April 6 2005, at the age of 69. Construction of the Frank Conroy Reading Room at the Workshop's Dey House on the University of Iowa campus was completed in 2006.

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