SEYMOUR — Whether serving his country in the Marine Corps and the Air Force, protecting the public as a state trooper, leading the town as first selectman or playing Santa Claus, there’s no denying ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa – Frank Conroy, the memoirist and longtime director of the celebrated University of Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop, died yesterday. He was 69. Conroy died at his home in Iowa City of colon ...

NEW YORK -- Frank Conroy, the longtime head of the celebrated Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, will step down at the end of the year, The Associated Press learned Monday. Conroy, who has ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - Frank Conroy, who directed the University of Iowa's celebrated Writers' Workshop for nearly two decades and wrote a memoir chronicling his troubled, nomadic childhood, has died.

Frank Conroy, who died April 6 of colon cancer at 69, was many things to many people. For me, his legacy resolves neatly to a single point of light: his memoir “Stop-Time,” published in 1967, when he ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Frank Conroy, the longtime head of the celebrated University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, will step down at the end of the year, The Associated Press learned Monday. Conroy, who has run ...

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He was preceded in death by first wife Mary Montgomery (deceased 2008), and wife Pat Shallenberger (deceased 2020). Surviving is children: Jeanne (Jim) Stewart, Margie (Geoff) DeVries, Frank Conroy, ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Frank Conroy, the memoirist and longtime director of the celebrated University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop, died Wednesday. He was 69. Conroy died at his home in Iowa City after a ...