I’m a Southerner who has known about it forever. I suspect lost readers of literary fiction know of it, too. Some of the very best writers of our time have either been faculty or students. Some of my favorite Iowa writers are Raymond Carver, Daniel Woodrell, Kent Haruf, Stuart Dybek, Barry Hannah, Marilynne Robinson, Chris Offutt, Wallace Stegnor and Flannery O’Connor. I could probably name two dozen more I have read and admire.