Andrew Roth was born in Brooklyn, NY, is a former reconstructive surgeon, and now lives in southwestern Virginia. At MacDowell, he completed the bulk of his first novel, American Gypsy Doctor Magic, during a two month winter residency.
Andrew Roth
Disciplines:
Literature – fiction
Disciplines:
Literature – fiction
Based in Roanoke, VA
Residencies: 2012
Studios
Calderwood
Andrew Roth worked in the Calderwood studio.
In the winter of 1998, motivated by his passion for reading, Stanford Calderwood donated funds for a new writers’ studio. Stanford Calderwood, a newspaperman in his youth who later went on to establish an investment firm, was a lover of nonfiction and was a member of MacDowell’s board of directors…