honor. Conroy is the subject of Mentor: A Memoir by Tom Grimes, his former student at the Iowa Writers Workshop and longtime friend. External links Identity Theory interview with Frank Conroy Lacy Crawford (Fall 2004). A Final Conversation, with Frank Conroy, Narrative Magazine. Two Frank Conroy manuscripts are housed at the University of Iowa Special Collections & University Archives. 1994 Whiting Writers' Award Keynote Speech Tom Grimes 1936 births 2005 deaths Deaths from colorectal cancer 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American memoirists University of Iowa faculty American travel writers Haverford College alumni Grammy Award winners American people of Danish descent Deaths from cancer in Iowa Iowa Writers' Workshop faculty Burials at Mount Auburn Cemetery American male novelists American male essayists American male short story writers 20th-century American short story writers 20th-century American essayists 20th-century American male writers Novelists from Iowa