Iowa Writers' Workshop Faculty: Kurt Vonnegut, John Irving, James Alan McPherson, Barry Hannah, Philip Roth, Simon Armitage, Robie MacAuley

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 78. Chapters: Kurt Vonnegut, John Irving, James Alan McPherson, Barry Hannah, Philip Roth, Simon Armitage, Robie Macauley, John Cheever, Nelson Algren, John Berryman, Robert Lowell, Heather McHugh, Mark Strand, Jorie Graham, Richard Yates, Robert Sward, Galway Kinnell, Donald Justice, Cole Swensen, Robert Hass, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Marilynne Robinson, Anthony Hecht, Edmund Skellings, James Salter, Carolyn Kizer, Thomas Swiss, Gerald Stern, ZZ Packer, Bharati Mukherjee, Jim Crace, John Ash, Ron Hansen, Louise Gluck, Forrest Gander, Jonathan Ames, Ronald Verlin Cassill, Ted Berrigan, Tom Sleigh, Mark Doty, Donald Revell, Charles D'Ambrosio, Jane Smiley, Robert Coover, Francine Prose, Deborah Eisenberg, Stuart Dybek, Brenda Hillman, Lyn Hejinian, Joy Williams, William Price Fox, James Tate, August Kleinzahler, Mary Ruefle, Gillian Conoley, Marvin Bell, Anselm Hollo, Vance Bourjaily, Nicholas Delbanco, Carolyn D. Wright, Madison Smartt Bell, Kevin Brockmeier, Barry Unsworth, Claudia Keelan, Ann Lauterbach, Sandra McPherson, Claudia Rankine, Larry Levis, Scott Spencer, Thisbe Nissen, Ethan Canin, Mary Lee Settle, Carl Phillips, Jack Marshall, Chris Offutt, Judith Grossman, Bob Shacochis, Ben Doller, John Casey, Thomas Lux, James Galvin, Frank Conroy, Kathleen Fraser, Paule Marshall, Susan Wheeler, Mark Levine, Emily Wilson, Elizabeth McCracken, Margot Livesey, Elizabeth Tallent, Meg Wolitzer, Tony Eprile, Jennifer Vanderbes. Excerpt: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., (; November 11, 1922 - April 11, 2007) was an American writer of the 20th century. He wrote such works as Cat's Cradle (1963), Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), and Breakfast of Champions (1973) blending satire, gallows humor, and science fiction. He was known for his humanist beliefs and was honorary president of the American Humanist Association. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., was born in Indianapo...