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Ethan Andrew Canin (born July 19, 1960) is an American author, educator, and physician. He is a member of the faculty of the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. Canin was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, while his parents were vacationing from Iowa City, where his father, Stuart Canin, taught violin at the University of Iowa.
About — Ethan Canin. Highly regarded as both a novelist and a short story writer, Ethan Canin has ranged in his career from the "breathtaking" short stories of Emperor of the Air to the "stunning" novellas of The Palace Thief, from the "wise and beautiful" short novel Carry Me Across the Water to the "epic" America America . His short stories ...
A tall, handsome, 27-year-old Harvard medical student, Canin quickly found himself tabbed as a literary darling. It was the start of a strange double life. In one, he was a lowly med student fetching coffee for residents and doctors. In the other, he gave interviews on NPR and lunched at the Four Seasons.
For Kings and Planets is a 1999 novel by Ethan Canin. Plot. The story centers around the friendship of two college students at Columbia University and follows them from their freshman year in 1974 to their adult lives in the late 1990s. Orno is a humble man from Missouri who gains entry to Columbia through his own strong work ethic.
- Steve Brzezinski, Ethan Canin
- 1999
Ethan Kanin was the Secretary of Defense under President Wayne Palmer during Day 6 and White House Chief of Staff under President Allison Taylor during the events of 24: Redemption and Day 7.
On every page Canin’s humane, precise prose offers marvels. A Doubter’s Almanac is fiction as it should be – rich, compassionate, gripping, and true."—Sunday Business Post (Dublin) "Math Made Beautiful. .. Ethan Canin writes with such luxuriant beauty and tender sympathy that even victims of Algebra II will follow his calculations of ...
Carry Me Across the Water is a novel by the American writer Ethan Canin. It is an elegiac novel that tells the story of August Kleinman, a 78-year-old former Pittsburgh brewery owner who remembers episodes from his life—from his escape from Nazi Germany to his life of poverty in New York to his rise to riches in industrial Pittsburgh.
