The Cedar Rapids poet who built the Iowa Writers' Workshop into the center of American creative writing.
Paul Engle was born on October 12, 1908, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and became a celebrated poet. For more than two decades he directed the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.
He turned the Workshop into the most influential creative-writing program in the country, then co-founded the International Writing Program to bring writers from around the world to Iowa City.
Engle's decades of work are a major reason Iowa City was named a UNESCO City of Literature, and generations of celebrated authors passed through the programs he built.
His legacy placed a small Iowa city at the heart of American letters.
The Cedar Rapids poet who built the Iowa Writers' Workshop into the center of American creative writing.
Paul Engle was from Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
1908–1991.
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