Carl H. Klaus, Professor Emeritus at the University of Iowa, founder of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program, and co-editor (with Patricia Hampl) of Sightline Books: The Iowa Series in Literary Nonfiction, is an essayist, diarist, and specialist in nonfiction writing.

His newest work is The Made-Up Self: Impersonation in the Personal Essay, forthcoming in September 2010 from the University of Iowa Press. His next work, forthcoming in 2011, is Essayists on the Essay: Four Centuries of Commentary (co-edited with Ned Stuckey-French).

Klaus is also the author of My Vegetable Love, Weathering Winter, Taking Retirement, and Letters to Kate—essayistic works in the form of diaries and letters that reflect on his life and marriage, on gardening and food, on work and retirement, and on his concern with time, change, and mortality.

Klaus’s reflections on writing can be heard in an essay that he read at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, “Days into Daybooks: A Voice for All Seasons”.

Email: carl-klaus@uiowa.edu.