Paul Engle

Paul Engle studied at Columbia University, University of Iowa and Coe College. Training under Edmund Blunden is recorded. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is creative writing, poetry and literature. Places of work recorded in the authority are Iowa City. Employment is recorded with University of Iowa. Positions recorded include director and professor. Distinctions recorded are Guggenheim Fellowship and Rhodes Scholarship.

• Name — Paul Engle • Born — 12 October 1908 • Birthplace — Cedar Rapids, Iowa, U.S. • Died — 22 March 1991 • Place of death — Chicago, Illinois, U.S. • Occupation — Writer and teacher Paul Hamilton Engle (October 12, 1908 – March 22, 1991), was an American poet, editor, teacher, literary critic, novelist, and playwright. He is remembered as the long-time director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and as co-founder of the International Writing Program (IWP), both at the University of Iowa.

Engle was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa to Hamilton Allen, a livery stable owner, and Evelyn (Reinheiner) Engle. He grew up in the Wellington Heights section of Cedar Rapids. He graduated from Washington High School (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), and later attended Coe College (class of 1931), The University of Iowa, Columbia University, and Merton College, Oxford (where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar 1933–1936). As a student at Iowa, Engle was one of the earliest recipients of an advanced degree awarded for creative work: his first collection Worn Earth, which went on to win the Yale Series of Younger Poets. His second book, American Song (1934), was given a rave front-page review in the New York Times Book Review and was even, briefly, a bestseller. From 1954 to 1959, Engle served as series editor for the O. Henry Prize.

• Worn Earth, Yale University Press, 1932. • American Song, Doubleday, 1934, reprinted, AMS Press, 1979. • Break the Heart's Anger, Doubleday, 1936. • Corn, Doubleday, 1939. • New Englanders, Prairie Press (Muscatine, IA), 1940. • West of Midnight, Random House, 1941. • American Child: A Sonnet Sequence, Random House, 1945 • revised and enlarged edition published as American Child: Sonnets for My Daughter, Dial, 1956. • The Word of Love, Random House, 1951. • Book and Child: Three Sonnets, Cummington Press (Iowa City, IA), 1956. • Poems in Praise, Random House, 1959. • Christmas Poems, privately printed, 1962. • A Woman Unashamed and Other Poems, Random House, 1965. • Embrace: Selected Love Poems, Random House, 1969. • Images of China: Poems Written in China, April–June, 1980, preface by Hualing Nieh, New World Press (Beijing), 1981.

• Always the Land (novel), Random House, 1941. • A Prairie Christmas (nonfiction), Longmans, Green, 1960. • Golden Child (novel), Dutton, 1962. • Who's Afraid?, Crowell-Collier, 1962. • An Old-Fashioned Christmas, Dial, 1964. • Women in the American Revolution, Follett, 1976. *

• 1954–59 Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, six volumes, Doubleday. • (With Warren Carrier) Reading Modern Poetry, Scott Foresman, 1955, revised edition, 1968. • Homage to Baudelaire, on the Centennial of "Les Fleurs du Mal," Cummington Press, 1957. • (With Henri Coulette) Midland: Twenty-Five Years of Fiction and Poetry from the Writing Workshops of the State University of Iowa, Random House, 1961. • (With Joseph Langland) Poet's Choice, Dial Press, 1962. • On Creative Writing, Dutton, 1964. • Midland II, Random House, 1970. • (And translator with wife, Hualing Nieh) Poems of Mao Tse-Tung, Dell, 1972. • (With Rowena Torrevillas and Hualing Nieh Engle) The World Comes to Iowa: Iowa International Anthology, Iowa State University (Ames, IA), 1987. NB: for further reference, Richard B. Weber (Library of the University of Iowa, 1966) has compiled a comprehensive bibliography entitled Paul Engle: A Checklist of books Paul Engle authored, as well as of publications he edited or to which he contributed.