Josephine Carol Goodman (1929-2020) was both a writer and visual artist. Her short story “The Kingdom of Gordon” was selected for The Best American Short Stories of 1951 while she was in her final year at Bennington College. Goodman, who published that first short story under the byline J. Carol Goodman, came to MacDowell as a fiction writer, but she also studied visual art at Bennington and made large-scale drawing and paintings, work that earned her solo shows at galleries in New Jersey and New York. Her stories were often inspired by incidents from her childhood and were published primarily in university literary magazines. Later in life she self-published several novellas.
Discipline:
Literature
Carol Goodman
Discipline:
Literature
Region: Williamstown, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1987
Studios
Veltin
Carol Goodman worked in the Veltin studio.
Veltin Studio was donated by alumni of the Veltin School, a school for girls in New York with a highly respected visual arts department. As the plaque just outside the entrance attests, this studio was used by poet Edwin Arlington Robinson during most of the 24 summers he spent at MacDowell. Perhaps most famously, Thornton Wilder put the finishing…