Frank Conroy Born: 15-Jan-1936 Birthplace: New York City Died: 6-Apr-2005 Location of death: Iowa City, IA Cause of death: Cancer - Colon Remains: Buried, Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Author Nationality: United States Executive summary: Stop-Time "Innately hip, the first true counterculture person I had ever met." -- David Halberstam Father: Philip Mother: Helga Father: Guy Trudeau (stepfather) Sister: Ellen Conroy Kennedy Sister: India Trudeau (half sister) Wife: Patty Ferguson (div., two sons) Son: Daniel Hand Son: Will Christian Wife: Margaret (until his death)
High School: Stuyvesant High School, New York City, NY University: Haverford College (1958) Administrator: Dir., Iowa Writers' Workshop, University of Iowa (1987-2005)
National Endowment for the Arts Dir., Literature Program (1982-87) Grammy 1986 for Frank Sinatra album The Voice (liner notes) Danish Ancestry Maternal
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR Stone Reader (Jan-2002)
Author of books:
Stop-Time: A Memoir (1967, memoir) Midair (1985, short stories) Body and Soul (1993, novel) Dogs Bark, but the Caravan Rolls On: Observations Then and Now (2002, essays) Time and Tide: A Walk Through Nantucket (2004, travelogue)
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