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About Ethan Canin
American author, educator, and physician
Ethan Andrew Canin is an American author, educator, and physician. He is a faculty member at the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. He is known for work that bridges medicine and literature, and for his role in teaching writers at one of the best known graduate programs in the United States. The available facts place him as both a practicing physician and a working writer, with his career grounded in writing and instruction rather than a single public role.
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Writing: more sayings
- “Then an argument would ensue because they were men with different ideas.”S.A. Tawks
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- “The writing of fantasy is best left to those who have nothing better to do, as is indicated by the fairy tale…”Peter S. Beagle