Master of Professional Writing Program
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The Master of Professional Writing Program (referred to as MPW) is a graduate writing program which offers a variety of courses at the University of Southern California's College of Letters, Arts & Sciences.
MPW offers classes in non-fiction, technical writing, fiction, poetry, playwriting, and screen and television writing. The program awards an MPW or Master of Professional Writing.
[edit] Notable alumni
- Mark Andrus, author of As Good as It Gets and Life as a House
- Jonathan Caren, writer and director
- Margaret Davis, author of biographies of Mulholland and Doheny
- Sandra Tsing Loh, radio commentator and author.
- Bobby D. Lux, magazine writer and Mixed Martial Arts journalist
- Greg Rucka, writer of novels and comic books
- Ann Seaman, author of biographies of Jimmy Swaggart and Madeline O'Hare
[edit] Notable faculty, past and present
- Shelley Berman - humor writing
- Syd Field - screenwriter
- Janet Fitch - fiction
- Noel Riley Fitch - non-fiction
- Donald Freed - playwriting
- Janet Irvin - fiction
- Irvin Kershner - "cinema/TV"
- Jerome Lawrence - playwriting
- John Rechy - author
- Hubert Selby Jr. - fiction - taught until his death in 2004
- Gay Talese - non-fiction
- Shirley Thomas - technical writing
