Authors Born in Iowa

1

James Norman Hall (1887-1951)

2

Mildred Wirt Benson (1905-2002)

3

Bill Bryson, 69

4

Elsa Maxwell (1883-1963)

5

Jessica Garvin, 35

6

Mona Van Duyn (1921-2004)

7

William Haines (1908-1989)

8

RV Cassill (1919-2002)

9

Angela Ribeiro, 40

10

Robert James Waller (1939-2017)

11

MacKinlay Kantor (1904-1977)

12

Margaret Wilson (1882-1973)

13

John Sandford, 77

14

RA Lafferty (1914-2002)

15

Peter Hedges, 59

16

Ted Kooser, 82

17

Nina Nunez Williams, 38

18

Jim Garrison (1921-1992)

19

Sara Paretsky, 74

20

Katelyn Cheek, 30

21

Susan Glaspell (1876-1948)

22

James Hearst (1900-1983)

23

Chelsea Snow Cain, 49

24

George Cram Cook (1873-1924)

25

Meridel Lesueur (1900-1996)

26

Janet Dailey (1944-2013)

27

Dorothy M. Johnson (1905-1984)

28

Tami Hoag, 62

29

Paul Engle (1908-1991)

30

Thomas Beer (1889-1940)

31

Amy Clampitt (1920-1994)

32

Phil Stong (1899-1957)

33

Norman Maclean (1902-1990)

34

Dennis Schmitz, 84

35

Gordon W. Prange (1910-1980)

36

Robert Coover, 89

37

Elswyth Thane (1900-1984)

38

Thomas M. Disch (1940-2008)

39

Brad Steiger (1936-2018)

40

Richard Pike Bissell (1913-1977)

41

Frederick Manfred (1912-1994)

42

Marquis Childs (1903-1990)

43

Joseph Petrick, 39