Hass

The 2008 Pulitzer Prizes were announced on Monday, April 7, and two of the winning authors, Robert Hass and Philip Schultz (both awarded with the Pulitzer for poetry), have affiliation with the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Robert Hass, professor at UC Berkeley and visiting professor at The University of Iowa, received the prize for his National Book Award winning collection of poetry, Time and Materials (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2007). Iowa Writers' Workshop alumnus Philip Schultz won for his volume of poetry, Failure (Harcourt, 2007).

Other workshop-affiliated authors were nominated as well, including workshop alumnus and former faculty member Denis Johnson for Tree of Smoke in the fiction category; and poet Ellen Bryant Voight, who received a Master of Fine Arts from the workshop, as the third poetry finalist.

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