Memoirist Frank Conroy

Frank Conroy

Living place: New York

Birthday: 15-1-1936 (88 years old)

Population of US 1936: 128,053,180

Global rank: #77198

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Who is Memoirist Frank Conroy?
An American author, he is remembered for his famous memoir Stop-Time, which was nominated for a National Book Award. His other works include Air (a collection of short stories) and Body and Soul (novel).
He is a jazz pianist as well as a writer. In 1986, he received a Grammy Award for his jazz liner notes.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He served as director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa for 18 years.

Family life info

He married Maggie Lee. Born in New York, he died of colon cancer in Iowa at the age of sixty-nine.

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Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Memoirist Frank Conroy?
In his book Bark Dog, But Caravan Rolls On: Observing Past and Present, Conroy describes playing jazz with Charles Mingus

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When was Memoirist Frank Conroy born?
Frank Conroy birthday 15-1-1936 (at the age of 88).
Where is Memoirist Frank Conroy's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Frank Conroy was born in New York, . is a Memoirist, whose Zodiac is Capricorn, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Pig. Frank Conroy's global rank is 77198 and whose rank is 52 in list of famous Memoirist. Population of US in 1936 is about 128,053,180 persons.
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Events in 1936 and 15-1

Events in US in the birth year of Frank Conroy

  • FDR is reelected in a landslide. The Electoral Vote is 523-8. Background: US Presidential Elections, 1789–present
  • Dust Bowl problem continues in the midwest.

Birthday Frank Conroy (15-1) in history

  • Day 15-1 year 1559: Queen Elizabeth I is crowned at Westminster Abbey.
  • Day 15-1 year 1759: Celebrating the Day the British Museum opened
  • Day 15-1 year 1777: The Republic of New Connecticut declared its independence and was renamed Vermont six months later.
  • Day 15-1 year 1870: The donkey was first used as symbol of the Democratic Party in Harper's Weekly.
  • Day 15-1 year 1943: The world's largest office building, the Pentagon, was completed.
  • Day 15-1 year 1967: The first Super Bowl was played: Green Bay Packers 35, Kansas City Chiefs 10.
  • Day 15-1 year 1973: President Nixon orders halt to offensive operations in North Vietnam.
  • Day 15-1 year 1992: The European Community recognized Croatia and Slovenia as separate states, effectively ending the Yugoslav federation, founded in 1918.
  • Day 15-1 year 2009: After allegedly striking a flock of geese, US Airways Flight 1549, en route from La Guardia Airport, New York City, to Charlotte, N.C., is forced to land in the Hudson River. All 150 passengers and 5 crew members survived. The pilot, Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger III, was hailed as the "Hero of the Hudson" for his quick thinking and deft landing of the plane.
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