Ethan Canin

Ethan Andrew Canin (born July 19, 1960) is an American author, educator, and physician. He is a member of the faculty of the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.

Canin was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan while his parents were vacationing from Iowa City, where his father taught violin at the University of Iowa. He and his family moved around the midwestern and northeastern United States, and eventually settled in San Francisco, California where he attended Town School and later graduated from San Francisco University High School. He attended Stanford University and earned an undergraduate degree in English. Returning to the University of Iowa, Canin entered the Iowa Writers' Workshop, receiving an MFA in 1984 and went on to attend Harvard Medical School where he earned an M.D. in 1991.

Beginning his medical practice with a residency at the University of California San Francisco, he pursued both medicine and writing for several years, leaving medicine in 1998 to join the faculty of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he still teaches. He is a co-founder of the San Francisco Writers' Grotto.

Awards

Blue River October 1992, Time Warner International, ISBN 9780446394475
For Kings and Planets (1999), Saint Martin's press Inc., ISBN 9780312241254
Carry Me Across the Water (2001)^[1] September 2002, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC., ISBN 9780747557906
America America June 2009, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC., ISBN 9780747598725

//This is so awsome that we can do what we want in our lives and nothing is ever going to make it better than that//

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