Ethan Canin

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Ethan Andrew Canin (born July 19, 1960 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an American author. The title story of his collection of short stories The Palace Thief was made into a movie called The Emperor's Club. In addition to his writing, Canin is also a physician and a member of the faculty of the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

[edit] Life and career

At the time Canin was born, his parents were living in Iowa City, where his father taught violin at the University of Iowa; Canin was born while they vacationed in Ann Arbor ([1].

Early in his childhood, his family moved around the northeast of the United States, but eventually settled in San Francisco, California. [2] Canin attended and graduated from Town School, San Francisco and then from San Francisco University High School. He attended Stanford University and earned an undergraduate degree in English. Returning to the University of Iowa, Canin entered the Iowa Writers' Workshop, receiving an MFA in 1985 (?) but is said to have considered himself a failure at writing and thus entered Harvard Medical School. After a break in his medical studies of several years, Canin graduated with an M.D. from Harvard in 1991. [3]

Beginning his medical practice with a residency in San Francisco, he pursued both medicine and writing for several years. In 1994 he cofounded the San Francisco Writers' Grotto. In 1998 he left medicine and joined the faculty of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he still teaches.

[edit] Works

Short Story Collections
  • The Palace Thief (1994)
  • Emperor of the Air (1988)
Novels
  • Blue River (novel) (1992)
  • For Kings And Planets (1999)
  • Carry Me Across The Water (2002)
  • "In The Bed of Ian K. Myron" (2007)

[edit] External links

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