Frank Conroy

01.15.1936 - 04.06.2005

Essayist. Novelist. Notable memoirist: "Stop Time." Remarkably good jazz pianist. Won a Grammy in 1986. Named Director of the famed Iowa Writers Workshop in 1987.
 

"It’s my belief that good book will still get published. Unlike a good movie screenplay. They have a million of them and they don’t care. But a good book will still get published. Publishing has been influenced a lot by popular culture and the retailing of books has changed. Popular culture is making a great deal of noise and actually it’s a little bit better than it used to be."


- Frank Conroy