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"In a Time of Witness" is a publication highlighting the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art's celebrated collection. Beyond a traditional exhibition catalog, this groundbreaking book pairs stunning imagery from the Stanley collection with original literary response to showcase an innovative vision for art interpretation. The literary responses are written by an impressive array of award-winning poets, translators and bestselling authors, including multiple Pulitzer Prize winners, U.S. Poets Laureate and national medal recipients, all of whom are alumni of the University of Iowa's prestigious literary programs"--
About the author
Derek (DK) Nnuro is a Ghanaian-born writer and is a graduate of Johns Hopkins and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He is curator of special projects at the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art. His debut novel,
What Napoleon Could Not Do, was published by Riverhead/Penguin Random House in 2023.
Marilynne Robinson is the recipient of a 2012 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama, for "her grace and intelligence in writing." She is the author of
Gilead, winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award;
Home, winner of the Orange Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and
Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her first novel,
Housekeeping, won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. In 2021, all four
Gilead novels were selected for Oprah's Book Club. Robinson's nonfiction books include What Are We Doing Here?;
The Givenness of Things,
When I Was a Child I Read Books,
Absence of Mind,
The Death of Adam, and
Mother Country. Her forthcoming book,
Reading Genesis, will be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 2024.
