Discipline: Literature – fiction

Alexander Turner

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Philadelphia, PA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2014

Alexander "Boysie" Turner heralds from London, UK. He worked on his first novel, entitled There it Made Sense. For the year before his residency, he lived on a bare hillside above Kabul, where he missed the sight of trees.

Studios

MacDowell

Alexander Turner worked in the MacDowell studio.

Built in 1912, Pine Studio was renamed MacDowell Studio in 1943 in recognition of support from a group of Edward MacDowell’s music students. It was built as a composers’ studio and the stuccoed walls were intended to be soundproof. Like many of the studios on property, MacDowell was winterized in the 1950s when the program began welcoming…

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