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 Jorie Graham, head of the poetry program in the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, has been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Graham was recently inducted into the prestigious organization with 17 other artists in literature and the fine arts, including humorist Garrison Keillor, film director Robert Altman, ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, director Mike Nichols, and actress Meryl Streep. Graham won the Pulitzer Prize in 1996 for The Dream of the Unified Field, the Academy of American Poets Prize, and numerous other awards, and she also has been the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, popularly know as the “genius grant.” The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is an honorary society that recognizes achievement in the natural sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities and conducts a varied program of projects and studies responsive to the needs and problems of society. The academy’s 3,300 elected members represent distinction and achievement in the entire range of the intellectual disciplines and professions. Among its members are 168 Nobel Prize laureates and nearly 60 Pulitzer Prize winners. Graham is the second member of the current Writers’ Workshop faculty to be honored by academy membership, joining fellow Pulitzer and MacArthur winner James Alan McPherson. by Winston Barclay Graham photo by Tom Jorgensen |
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