Helen Gunderson is an independent videographer and photographer, a local historian, and a seminary graduate with a passion to interpret her rural Iowa heritage. Presently residing in Gilbert, Iowa, she works under the business name of Gunder-friend...
One of 18 scrapbooks on Wood's career, containing letters, postcards, photographs, clippings, and miscellany; compiled by Nan Wood Graham, sister of Grant Wood.
Etgar Keret was born in Tel-Aviv, Israel in 1967. His latest book, The Nimrod Flipout, was published in spring 2006 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He participated in the 2001 International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. '600 Words'...
University of Iowa graduate students Stephanie Elizondo Griest, Marisa Handler, Jen Percy and Kendra Greene read their contributions to "Best Women's Travel Writing 2010."
"Best Women's Travel Writing 2010" is the sixth book in a series that...
One of 18 scrapbooks on Wood's career, containing letters, postcards, photographs, clippings, and miscellany; compiled by Nan Wood Graham, sister of Grant Wood.
One of 18 scrapbooks on Wood's career, containing letters, postcards, photographs, clippings, and miscellany; compiled by Nan Wood Graham, sister of Grant Wood.
In celebration of the 50th anniversary edition of William Burroughs' "Naked Lunch," University of Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni Stephen Kuusisto and Cheeni Rao read selections from the novel.
The free "We Read Banned Books" event is hosted by UI...
John D. Thompson is the author of six books of poetry, including 99 Voices, 99 Lives: County Poems of Iowa and On Holiday, a book of seasonal verse. Born and raised in Iowa, Thompson is passionate about creating Iowa-based poems from geography and...
Now a writer, journalist, social commentator and a TV show host, Zhang Lijia spent a decade in the 80's working in a Nanjing factory, that produced intercontinental missiles capable of reaching North America. To escape from the repressive routine,...
Essentially prepared as a letter to Robert Boyle, the book contains, in addition to the autobiographical introduction, over fifty letters from individuals, public figures, patients, churchmen, physicians, and Fellows of the Royal Society testifying...
Christopher Merrill has published four collections of poetry, including Brilliant Water and Watch Fire, for which he received the Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets; translations of Aleš Debeljak's Anxious...
This sequence of brightly coloured miniatures from a magnificent 13th century French manuscript is among the best examples of leading French book illumination during the medieval period of Gothic style.
Porterfield devoted himself chiefly to research on the physiology of vision, reporting his experiments and observations in this book. Porterfield’s Treatise was carefully read by all of the subsequent great contributors to ophthalmology and...