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7 unusual facts about Hopwood Award


Honors at Dawn

Honors at Dawn, written in 1936, is Arthur Miller's second play (after No Villain /They Too Arise), for which he won a second Avery Hopwood Award.

Hopwood

Hopwood Award, a literary scholarship awarded by the University of Michigan

Joe Dassin

Dassin moved back to the United States where he attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan from 1957 to 1963, winning an undergraduate Hopwood Award for fiction in 1958 and earning a Bachelor of Arts in 1961 and a Master of Arts in 1963, both in Anthropology.

Lyn Coffin

Major and Minor Hopwood Awards in every category (Drama, Short Fiction, Long Fiction, Poetry, and Essay).

While a student in Ann Arbor, Michigan, she won Major and Minor Hopwood Awards in every category.

Nancy Willard

Willard was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she later received the B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and won five Hopwood Awards for creative writing.

No Villain

This was his first work, reportedly written in six days in the hope of winning a $250 Hopwood Award, the first of two that he won.



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