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Tom Grimes is an American novelist, playwright, and creative writing instructor. He is the director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Texas State University in San Marcos. Grimes was a promising student at the famed Iowa Writers' Workshop while it was under the direction of Frank Conroy, author of the memoir ''Stop-Time''. Grimes’ own memoir, ''Mentor: A Memoir'' (Tin House), is largely concerned with his time in Iowa and his friendship with Conroy, who Grimes first met while writing and working as a waiter in Key West. Grimes has described ''Mentor'' as the autobiography of a “failed novelist.”〔Author reading and book signing 8/27/2010 at the Arboretum Barnes & Noble in Austin, Texas.〕 Grimes’ chronicle of failing to realize high expectations of him as a writer has arguably proven to be his greatest literary success thus far.〔(Michael Dirda - 'Mentor,' a memoir by Tom Grimes, reviewed by Michael Dirda )〕 After Iowa Grimes was recruited to head the (then) fledgling MFA program at Texas State (the college was known as Southwest Texas State University at the time). Grimes’ stewardship has elevated the program to national prominence,〔(You'll Have to Hold the Line, Mom, My Agent Is Calling - New York Times )〕 and has attracted visiting writers and faculty such as Tim O’Brien, ZZ Packer, Robert Stone, Dagoberto Gilb, and Debra Monroe. Texas State's MFA program broke into the Top Fifty in Poets & Writers' rankings of graduate writing programs for the application year 2012.〔 (Poets & Writers 2012 MFA Rankings: The Top Fifty ).〕 Grimes was also instrumental in organizing and raising funds for the restoration of the historic Katherine Anne Porter House in Kyle, Texas (the childhood home of Pulitzer Prize–winning author Katherine Anne Porter), as well as the development of the KAP Literary Center,〔http://www.english.txstate.edu/kap/PDFs/CourtingMissPorter.pdf〕 which is affiliated with the writing program at Texas State. The Katherine Anne Porter House has since hosted workshops, craft talks, and public readings by writers and poets such as Robert Creeley, Percival Everett, Richard Ford, Mary Gaitskill, Annie Proulx, and George Saunders. ==Bibliography== * ''Mentor: A Memoir'' * ''Redemption Song'' * ''Will@epicqwest.com'' * ''City of God'' * ''Season's End'' * ''A Stone of the Heart'' * ''The Workshop: Seven Decades of the Iowa Writers' Workshop'' (Editor) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tom Grimes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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