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Paul Engle

novelist, librettist, poet, editor, pedagogue, literary critic, prose writer, playwright, educator

1908 – 1991

Paul Hamilton Engle, was an American poet, editor, teacher, literary critic, novelist, and playwright. He is remembered as the long-time director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and as co-founder of the International Writing Program (IWP), both at the University of Iowa.

All Quotes by Paul Engle

“All families had their special Christmas food. Ours was called Dutch Bread, made from a dough halfway between bread and cake, stuffed with citron and every sort of nut from the farm - hazel, black walnut, hickory, butternut.”

— Paul Engle

“The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.”

— Paul Engle

“Every Christmas should begin with the sound of bells, and when I was a child mine always did. But they were sleigh bells, not church bells, for we lived in a part of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where there were no churches.”

— Paul Engle

“A barn with cattle and horses is the place to begin Christmas; after all, that's where the original event happened, and that same smell was the first air that the Christ Child breathed.”

— Paul Engle