Paul Engle

Engle

Engle was a faculty member of the English Department at the University of Iowa from 1937 to 1991. During his career at Iowa, he taught scores of writers including Donald Justice, Philip Levine, W.D. Snodgrass, and Wallace Stegner. From 1937 to 1965, he served as the director of the UI Creative Writing Program. Engle and his wife, writer Hualing Nieh, founded the UI International Writing Program in 1966.

Born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Engle attended Coe College in Cedar Rapids, receiving a B.A. degree in 1931. The following year, he earned an M.A. degree at the UI. He completed advanced studies at Columbia University and Merton College at Oxford.

Engle pursued his own literary career, becoming a three-time recipient of Guggenheim fellowships in poetry. His poetry collections include Worn Earth (1932), American Child: Sonnets for My Daughter (1956), Embrace: Selected Love Poems (1969), and Images of China: Poems Written in China, April-June, 1980 (1981) and the novels Always the Land (1941) and Golden Child (1962).

Author biography in part by Deanna Sue Thomann, The Iowa Literary Walk website

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