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Frank Conroy

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born

January 15, 1936 in New York, The United States

died

April 06, 2005

gender

male

genre

Literature & Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Short Stories

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Frank Conroy was an American author, born in New York, New York to an American father and a Danish mother. He published five books, including the highly acclaimed memoir Stop-Time, published in 1967, which ultimately made Conroy a noted figure in the literary world. The book was nominated for the National Book Award.
Conroy graduated from Haverford College, and was director of the influential Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa for 18 years, from 1987 until 2005, where he was also F. Wendell Miller Professor. He was previously the director of the literature program at the National Endowment for the Arts from 1982–1987.
Conroy's published works included: the moving memoir Stop-Time; a collection of short stories, Midair; a novel,...more Frank Conroy was an American author, born in New York, New York to an American father and a Danish mother. He published five books, including the highly acclaimed memoir Stop-Time, published in 1967, which ultimately made Conroy a noted figure in the literary world. The book was nominated for the National Book Award.
Conroy graduated from Haverford College, and was director of the influential Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa for 18 years, from 1987 until 2005, where he was also F. Wendell Miller Professor. He was previously the director of the literature program at the National Endowment for the Arts from 1982–1987.
Conroy's published works included: the moving memoir Stop-Time; a collection of short stories, Midair; a novel, Body and Soul, which is regarded as one of the finest evocations of the experience of being a musician; a collection of essays and commentaries, Dogs Bark, but the Caravan Rolls On: Observations Then and Now; and a travelogue, Time and Tide: A Walk Through Nantucket. His fiction and non-fiction appeared in such journals as The New Yorker, Esquire, GQ, Harper's Magazine and Partisan Review. He was named a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government.
In addition to writing, Conroy was an accomplished jazz pianist, winning a Grammy Award in 1986. His book Dogs Bark, But the Caravan Rolls On: Observations Then and Now includes articles that describe jamming with Charles Mingus and with Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman. The latter session occurred when Conroy was writing about the Rolling Stones for Esquire. Conroy had arrived at a mansion for the interview, found nobody there, and eventually sat down at a grand piano and began to play. Someone wandered in, sat down at the drums, and joined in with accomplished jazz drumming; then a fine jazz bassist joined in. They turned out to be Watts and Wyman, whom Conroy did not recognize until they introduced themselves after the session.
Conroy died of colon cancer on April 6, 2005, in Iowa City, Iowa, at the age of 69.

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Average rating: 3.74 · 8,096 ratings · 307 reviews · 10 distinct works

	Body and Soul 4.16 avg rating — 754 ratings — 20 editions	My rating:
	Stop-Time: A Memoir 3.96 avg rating — 611 ratings — published 1967 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Midair: Stories 3.60 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 1986 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Eleventh Draft: Craft and the Writing Life from the Iowa Writers' Workshop by Frank Conroy, Iowa Writers' Workshop 3.59 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1999	My rating:
	Time and Tide: A Walk Through Nantucket 3.42 avg rating — 40 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	Dogs Bark, but the Caravan Rolls On: Observations Then and Now 3.60 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2002	My rating:
	The Iowa Award: The Best Stories, 1991-2000 3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1991 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Stop-Time 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Body & Soul 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1996	My rating:
	Le Cas Mystérieux De Ret Autres Nouvelles 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:

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“I could not resist the clarity of the world in books, the incredibly satisfying way in which life became weighty and accessible. Books were reality. I hadn't made up my own mind about my own life, a vague, dreamy affair, amorphous and dimly perceived, without beginning or end.”
― Frank Conroy, Stop-time

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“La mauvaise musique est jouée tous les jours, la bonne ignorée.”
― Frank Conroy, Body and Soul

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“The author makes a tacit deal with the reader. You hand them a backpack. You ask them to place certain things in it — to remember, to keep in mind — as they make their way up the hill. If you hand them a yellow Volkswagen and they have to haul this to the top of the mountain — to the end of the story — and they find that this Volkswagen has nothing whatsoever to do with your story, you're going to have a very irritated reader on your hands.”
― Frank Conroy

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