E-mail a friendApril 18, 2005
Lan Samantha Chang talks about her new appointment as director of the prestigious University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Actor and Spamalot author Eric Idle discusses life after Monty Python.
Lan Samantha Chang
Lan Samantha Chang
Lan Samantha Chang was recently named director of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. She's the first woman and first Asian American ever to head the preeminent writers program. Chang published her first story in The Atlantic Monthly at age 28 and is the author of the novel Inheritance and the acclaimed fiction collection Hunger. Harvard's Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in creative writing, Chang's work has been translated into more than a half-dozen languages. Her Iowa tenure will begin in January '06.
Eric Idle
Eric Idle
An alum of the groundbreaking Monty Python troupe, Eric Idle writes, acts, directs and produces. He's also an accomplished guitar player and composer. Idle was born in England and attended Cambridge, where he belonged to the prestigious Footlights Club. He began his own TV series, Rutland Weekend Television, and has written several books, including Spamalot, on which Broadway's hot new musical is based. Idle was voted one of the top 50 greatest comedy acts ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders.