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Bibliography
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Time and Tide
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(2002)
Dogs Bark, but the Caravan Rolls On
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(1993)
Body and Soul
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Midair
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Stop-Time
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- Legal name: Frank Conroy
- Birthdate: January 15, 1936
- Birthplace: New York, New York, United States
- Nationality: American
- Gender: Male
- Official Website: (add)
- Genres: Travel Memoir, Short Story, Novel, Memoir
- Date of death: April 6, 2005 (aged 69)
- Burial location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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After graduating from Haverford College Frank Conroy was the director of the literature program at the National Endowment for the Arts from 1982 to 1987. From 1987 until 2005 he acted as director of the Iowa Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa where he was also F. Wendell Miller Professor. In addition to his writing Conroy was an accomplished jazz pianist who won a Grammy Award in 1986. His work appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, GQ, Harper's Magazine and Partisan Review and he was named a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government. His memoir Stop-Time, published in 1967 was nominated for the National Book Award.
