The Hopwood Awards: 75 Years of Prized Writing

Book Overview

"Permit me to say that I have won Hopwoods and also lost them, and I know the power that winning gives and the way the soul shakes when, all ears, you hear silence instead of your name."
-Arthur Miller

The Hopwood Awards claim a gallery of prizewinners who rose to become the Who's Who of writers of the last three generations: Max Apple, John Ciardi, Mary Gaitskill, Robert Hayden, Laura Kasischke, Jane Kenyon, Arthur Miller, Howard Moss, Frank O'Hara, Marge Piercy, Ronald Wallace, and Nancy Willard, among many others.

Since they first began in 1931, funded by a bequest from the will of playwright Avery Hopwood, University of Michigan Class of 1905, the Hopwood Awards have grown in profile and stature to become one of the most sought after and celebrated writing prizes for students.

The Hopwood Awards: 75 Years of Prized Writing collects-for the first time in one volume-poetry and prose by writers who won Hopwood Awards when they were students at the University of Michigan and who went on to achieve fame as writers.

Nicholas Delbanco is Professor of English and Director of the Hopwood Program at the University of Michigan. He is author or editor of numerous books, including Anywhere Out of the World: Essays on Travel, Writing, Death;The Sincerest Form; and The Writing Life: The Hopwood Lectures.

Andrea Beauchamp is Program Associate at the Hopwood Program, and Michael Barrett is Associate Editor at the Hopwood Program, University of Michigan.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472069268
• ISBN13: 9780472069262
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.6" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Highly recommended reading for its showcased compilation of prizewinning literary talent

Expertly compiled and co-edited by the team of Nicholas Delbanco (Professor of English and Director of the Hopwood Program at the University of Michigan), Andrea Beauchamp (Program Associate at the Hopwood Program), and Michael Barrett (Associate Editor at the Hopwood Program, University of Michigan) The Hopwood Awards: Seventy-Five Years Of Prized Writing is an impressive literary anthology of University of Michigan students who won the prestigious Hopwood Award for literature and showcasing three generations of these outstanding writers. Inclusive of writings drawn from the work of John Ciardi, Anne Stevenson, Henry Van Dyke, Max Apple, Cid Corman, Sarah Messer, Laura Kasischke, Garret Hongo and so many more remarkable authors, The Hopwood Awards presents an eminent compendium of intellectual literature. The Hopwood Awards is very highly recommended reading for its showcased compilation of prizewinning literary talent.