Discipline: Literature – fiction

Ben Schrank

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1998, 2000

Ben Schrank is the president and publisher of Razorbill, a Penguin imprint that is home to many award-winning and New York Times–bestselling books for children and young adults. He is also the author of the novels Consent and Miracle Man and has had residencies at MacDowell and Yaddo. In the 1990s, he wrote “Ben’s Life,” a monthly column for Seventeen magazine.

Studios

Mansfield

Ben Schrank 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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