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Carl H. Klaus—Professor Emeritus at the University of Iowa, founding director of Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program, and co-editor (with Patricia Hampl) of Sightline Books, the Iowa Series in Creative Nonfiction—is a diarist, essayist, and author of several textbooks on writing. His diaries include My Vegetable Love (Houghton Mifflin, 1996), Weathering Winter (U of Iowa Press, 1997), Taking Retirement (Beacon Press, 1999), and Letters to Kate (U. of Iowa Press, 2006). Klaus's next work, currently in progress, is The Chameleon "I": Personae in the Personal Essay. A longtime Iowa City vegetable gardener, Klaus' backyard adventures have been chronicled in Staw and Swander's Parsnips In the Snow: Interviews With Midwest Gardeners (U of Iowa Press, 1990). |
