Ethan Canin
American novelist and short-story writer whose fiction examines the moral and emotional life of middle-class Americans with precise, quiet intelligence. America America is a political novel of Watergate-era ambition. He is a founding faculty member of the Iowa Writers' Workshop fiction program.
Works
- Emperor of the AirInterconnected stories of aging men and vanished ambitions
- Blue RiverLove and obsession across generations in rural Iowa setting
- The Palace ThiefNovella about a teacher, student, and moral reckoning
- Carry Me Across the WaterFamily saga spanning continents and decades of inheritance and loss
- America AmericaHistorical epic following immigrant family from Europe to America
- For Kings and PlanetsYoung men's friendship shaped by Princeton, ambition, and betrayal
- A Doubter's AlmanacFather-son story intertwined with doubt, science, and family legacy