University of Iowa Press Digital Editions
The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa
Iowa Poetry Prize
Iowa Prairie Plants
Iowa Short Fiction Award
Singular Lives
The Vascular Plants of Iowa
The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa
Spotlighting prominent Iowans, including Native Americans, early explorers, inventors, farmers, scholars, baseball players, musicians, artists, writers, politicians, scientists, conservationists, preachers, educators, and activists, who have made invaluable contributions to the state and to the nation.
Iowa Poetry Prize
Awarded annually by the University of Iowa Press, the Iowa Poetry Prize is one of the leading national poetry awards. The acclaimed competition is open to new as well as established poets.
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Iowa Prairie Plants
Using text and maps by Paul Christiansen and drawings by Mark Müller, this first comprehensive guide to the prairie plants native to Iowa provides all the information necessary for identifying and distinguishing even the most similar species.
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Iowa Short Fiction Award
Praised by The New York Times Book Review as "among the most prestigious literary prizes America offers," the national Iowa Short Fiction Awards are given annually to first collections of fiction and are juried through the renowned Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
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Singular Lives
Edited by a distinguished scholar of autobiography, this series includes life stories of so-called ordinary Americans who, though not necessarily known to the general public, freshly recreated representative pasts and reimagined singular identities.
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The Vascular Plants of Iowa
A comprehensive resource featuring an extended essay on the natural history of the vascular plants of Iowa, a discussion of their origins, a description of the state's natural regions, and a painstakingly annotated checklist of Iowa vascular plants.
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A point is that which has no part: poems
After the first death there is no other
Biographical dictionary of Iowa
Black eagle child: the facepaint narratives
China dreams: growing up Jewish in Tientsin
Flight dreams: a life in the Midwestern landscape
Fly in the buttermilk: the life story of Cecil Reed
Harry Belten and the Mendelssohn violin concerto
Hotel Malabar: a narrative poem
Impossible appetites: nine stories
Making of a black scholar: from Georgia to the Ivy League
Massacre of the innocents: poems
May you live in interesting times
My Iowa journey: the life story of The University of Iowa’s first African American professor
"Old morals, small continents, darker times"
Out of the girls room and into the night
Prairie populist: the memoirs of Luna Kellie
River of lost voices: stories from Guatemala
Snake’s daughter: the roads in and out of war
Sunflower facing the sun: poems
Taking part: a twentieth-century life
Thank you for being concerned and sensitive
The bunker in the parsley fields: poems
The gates of the elect kingdom: poems
The hemophiliac's motorcycle: poems
Unfriendly fire: a mother’s memoir
A collaborative effort of the University of Iowa Press and the University of Iowa Libraries, this site provides access to digital versions of books published by the Press. These 91 titles, including many out of print volumes, are fully searchable and freely available to readers and researchers around the world.