Tag: Iowa Writers’ Workshop

  • Nation & World

    A character fit for a novel

    For 13 months from 1940 to 1941, Harvard graduate Varian Fry forged papers and planned rescue routes from occupied France for a list of people that reads like a Who’s Who of Europe’s cultural and political elite. Author Julie Orringer is spending her year at Radcliffe working on a novel about Fry’s life.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Among the missing

    Harvard Extension School instructor Sarah Braunstein’s new novel “The Sweet Relief of Missing Children” plumbs the vulnerability of childhood.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    One writer’s gospel

    A student in novelist Paul Harding’s last Harvard class recounts the lessons learned.

    4 minutes