When he arrived at MacDowell, author Dave Madden was at work on a novel and a book of essays about standup comedy and constructing the self. His first nonfiction book was about taxidermy. During his residency, Madden finished an essay and began a new nonfiction book project.
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
Dave Madden
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
Region: San Francisco, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2017
More:
www.davemadden.org
Studios
Irving Fine
Dave Madden worked in the Irving Fine studio.
Youngstown Studio was given to MacDowell by friends of Miss Myra McKeown in Youngstown, OH, where she promoted both art and music. It was renamed Irving Fine Studio in 1972 in honor of Irving Fine, a distinguished composer, conductor, and teacher who was a MacDowell Fellow during the 1940s and 1950s. The simple interior of the studio…