How the CIA shaped American creative writing
Jefferson Morley
February 20, 2014
In this fascinating article for The Chronicle of Higher Education, Eric Bennett describes the remarkable career of Paul Engle, the director of the Iowa’s Writer’s Workshop, the most celebrated and select writing program in the country.
“Between the mid-1940s and the early 1960s, Engle transformed the Writers’ Workshop from a regional curiosity into a national landmark,” Bennett writes
And he did it with money that came with ideological strings attached, including money from the CIA.
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