Ethan Canin | |
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 Canin in Iowa City, Iowa | |
| Born | July 19, 1960 Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. |
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| Education | Stanford University (BA) University of Iowa (MFA) Harvard University (MD) |
| Genre | Novel, Short story |
| Notable awards | Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts fellowship |
| Children | 3 |
| Parents | Stuart Canin (father) |
Ethan Andrew Canin (born July 19, 1960) is an American author, educator, and physician. He is a member of the faculty of the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.
Canin was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, while his parents were vacationing from Iowa City, where his father, Stuart Canin, taught violin at the University of Iowa. He and his family moved around the midwestern and northeastern United States, and eventually settled in San Francisco, California, where he attended Town School and later graduated 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 1984, and went on to attend Harvard Medical School, where he earned an M.D. in 1991.[1]
Beginning his medical practice with a residency at the University of California San Francisco, he pursued both medicine and writing for several years, leaving medicine in 1995[2] to join the faculty of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he still teaches. He is a co-founder of the San Francisco Writers Grotto.[1][2]
Canin is married with three daughters.[2][3]
- ^ a b "About the Author: Ethan Canin". Newmarket Press. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
- ^ a b c Canin, Ethan (13 June 2001). "Good Lit: Ethan Canin in Conversation" (Interview). Interviewed by Barbara Lane. The Commonwealth Club. Archived from the original on 12 July 2010. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
- ^ Kaminsky, Leah (17 August 2009). "Anatomy of a leading author". The Australian Jewish News. Internet Archive. Archived from the original on 25 November 2021. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
"I feel profoundly Jewish by culture — perhaps even more than I feel like an American -— but I lived in small towns for most of my childhood and thus grew up without much exposure to a strong Jewish community."