Sheena Maree Smitley was born in Des Moines, Iowa. She is 20 years old and a sophomore at Simpson College. An English major, she plans to teach high school after graduating.
Rejeanne Davis Ashley Hankins moved to Solon, Iowa, from Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, with her husband in 2005. She is an editor, writer, and communications consultant; she also enjoys painting, drawing, making bracelets, cooking, and gardening.
T.C. Boyle received his MFA and PhD from the University of Iowa. He is the author of nineteen books of fiction. The Tortilla Curtain was the 2006 selection of One Community, One Book: All Johnson County Reads, an annual countywide reading project...
Karen An-hwei Lee's first book-length collection, In Medias Res, won the Kathryn A. Morton Prize from Sarabande books and the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award. "Prayer for the Underground Supplicant" appears in the current...
Yvette was a prisoner at the Iowa Correctional Institute for Women when she wrote this piece, which was read during a public performance in Shambaugh Auditorium by the Women in Exile Project.The Women in Exile Project is a collaboration between the...
Newspaper articles about Nile Kinnick's last football season at the University of Iowa, his subsequent football awards, his participation in the 1940 All Stars game, his Iowa speaking tours, and his enlistment and training in the U.S. Naval Air...
Newspaper articles about Nile Kinnick's untimely death and the many tributes that followed, which included scholarships, awards, memorials and the renaming of the University of Iowa's stadium to Kinnick Stadium.
The Aldus Book Co., Ltd., New York -- catalog of used books (n.d.) -- Cheshire House, Inc., New York City -- announcement of 12 new titles to be published (1931) -- Field & Tuer, London, England -- folder of loose pages advertising new publications...
The Werner Company, Akron, Ohio -- booklet describing the company (1894) -- Griffith, Axtell, & Cady Co., Holyoke, Massachusetts -- ad sheet for "Ideal Masterpieces" Art Advertising sheet (for insertion in newspapers, etc.) (1891) -- Meyer-Rotier...