Discipline: Literature – fiction

Andres Carlstein

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: North Liberty, IA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2012

Andres Carlstein worked an historical novel about a Scottish immigrant boy abducted by a gaucho in 1850s Argentina. Carlstein was an Iowa Arts Fellow at the Iowa Writers Workshop. His book Odyssey to Ushuaia recounts a year-long trip he took from New York to Argentina on a motorcycle.

Studios

Mansfield

Andres Carlstein worked in the Mansfield studio.

The Helen Coolidge Mansfield Studio was donated by graduates of the Mansfield War Service Classes for Reconstruction Aides. Helen Mansfield helped found the New York MacDowell Club. The small, shingled frame structure with stone foundation was originally fronted on the west side by a neat white picket fence and gate, a garden, and a stone pathway…

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