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Geof Rips ’72

Geof Rips ’72, whose book, The Truth, was published in January, received a prize for the novel from the Associated Writing Programs (AWP), the organization of graduate writing programs around the country. Now serving as director of special projects for Austin, Texas, public schools, he was an English major at Wesleyan and holds an MA in English/creative writing from Indiana University. Writer Nicholas Delbanco, an AWP judge, said: “This is a hard book to describe and an impossible one to forget. The Truth is—that rarest of things—an original vision and text.”
Geof Rips ’72, whose book, The Truth, was published in January, received a prize for the novel from the Associated Writing Programs (AWP), the organization of graduate writing programs around the country. Now serving as director of special projects for Austin, Texas, public schools, he was an English major at Wesleyan and holds an MA in English/creative writing from Indiana University. Writer Nicholas Delbanco, an AWP judge, said: “This is a hard book to describe and an impossible one to forget. The Truth is—that rarest of things—an original vision and text.”