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Another tortured writer.(LETTERS)(Letter to the Editor)
Harper's Magazine, September, 2005 by Fenza, David; Angrist, Misha; D; '; Epiro, Peter
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Like many others since the 1950s, Lynn Freed ["Doing Time," Memoir, July] addresses the question, "Can creative writing be taught?" She argues that it cannot, but writing programs have provided many fruitful years for many writers.
At the University of Iowa, Kurt Vonnegut taught a class in which Andre Dubus, Gail Godwin, John Casey, and John Irving were among the students. E. L. Doctorow taught Richard Ford at the University of California, Irvine, where Michael Chabon, Alice Sebold, and Maile Meloy also studied. At Stanford, Wallace Stegner taught Robert ...
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