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Former IWP Director Clark Blaise will read from his acclaimed 'Time Lord' May 11 (535 words) |
 | Blaise writes with perfect pitch and graceful narrative; his most beautiful chapter explores the ways that writers like Thomas Mann, Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf manipulated time in their work even as they were constrained by it. |
| Blaise was director of the IWP from 1990-98. |
| Blaise retired from the UI in 1998 and was succeeded in 2000 by Christopher Merrill, the current IWP director. |
| New York State Writers Institute - Bharati Mukherjee and Clark Blaise (627 words) |
| Clark Blaise is the child of expatriate Canadians (father French-Canadian, mother English-Canadian) who roamed the United States in search of better employment. |
| Blaise has written, "As a native-born American with foreign parents, and as a child who attended an average of two schools a year in 25 different cities, I grew up with an outsider's view of America and a romanticized exile's view of French Canada. |
| Clark Blaise is former director of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, and former professor of English at Skidmore College. |
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