Discipline: Literature

Beth Macy

Discipline: Literature
Region: Roanoke, VA
MacDowell fellowships: 2015
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Beth Macy worked on her second narrative nonfiction book, Truevine, about race, greed, and the circus. Her first nonfiction book, Factory Man, debuted on The New York Times Best Seller list and won the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award. Her third book, DOPESICK: Dealers, Doctors and the Drug Company that Addicted America, was published in 2018 by Little, Brown and Company.

Studios

Putnam

Beth Macy worked in the Putnam studio.

The Graphics Studio, converted to its present use in 1972–1974 through a grant from the Putnam Foundation, originally served the property as both a power house and pump house. Well water was pumped from a large cistern to Hillcrest, the Foreman’s Cottage, and the lower buildings closer to Union Street. Inside the building, an engine powered…

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