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Occupation author, educator, physician Movies The Emperor's Club, The Year of Getting to Know Us, Beautiful Ohio, Blue River Education Harvard Medical School, Stanford University Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada Books The Palace Thief, America America, Emperor of the Air, For Kings and Planets, Carry Me Across the Water Similar People Michael Hoffman, Patrick Sisam, John Updike, Chad Lowe, Hilary Swank | ||
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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.
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Canin was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan 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.
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 1998 to join the faculty of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he still teaches. He is a co-founder of the San Francisco Writers' Grotto.