Four University of Iowa graduates are listed among the authors being considered for the prestigious National Book Award. The Iowa writers whose books have been placed on the longlist:FictionAngela Flournoy, who earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2011, for The Wilderness. Joy Williams, who earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 1965, for The Pelican Child. Williams is the author of five previous novels—including Harrow, a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; The Quick and the Dead, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; and State of Grace, a Finalist for the National Book Award. Winners of the National Book Award competition, which is administered by the National Book Foundation, will be announced Nov. 19.