Ethan Canin Biography

Ethan Canin's first short stories collected in Emperor of the Air when he was only twenty-seven dazzled the literary world. His next five books Blue River For Kings and Planets The Palace Thief Carry Me Across the Water and America America established his reputation as one of the finest writers in America. He has garnered generous literary prizes awarded in the past to the likes of Robert Penn Warren Elizabeth Bishop and Philip Roth.
His road to success as a writer was not always an easy one. After joining the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1982 he left two years later with a Master's degree and about fifty total pages written considering himself a failure at writing. In the usual adult panic he says he applied to Harvard Medical School.
During his first year there he wrote Emperor of the Air which was published two years later. Ethan then took a seven-year break traveling to South America before again settling in San Francisco. Finishing his medical degree in 1991 Ethan began an internal medicine residency.

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