Master of Professional Writing Program
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The Master of Professional Writing Program (referred to as MPW) is a graduate program which offers a variety of writing courses at the University of Southern California.
MPW offers classes in non-fiction, technical writing, fiction, poetry, playwriting, and screen and television writing. The program awards an MPW or Masters in Professional Writing.
Notable alumni
- Mark Andrus, author of As Good as It Gets and Life as a House
- Sandra Tsing Loh, radio commentator and author.
Notable faculty, past and present
- Syd Field - screenwriter
- Shelley Berman - humor writing
- Irvin Kershner
- Janet Irvin - fiction
- Janet Fitch - fiction
- Jerome Lawrence - playwriting
- John Rechy - author
- Gay Talese - fiction
- Shirley Thomas - taught technical writing for 30 years until her death in 2005
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