Discipline: Literature – fiction

Eliot Schrefer

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2016

Eliot Schrefer is a two-time National Book Award Finalist in Young People's Literature for Endangered and Threatened, survival stories about conservation in times of conflict. He worked on the fourth book in the Great Ape Quartet, featuring gorillas. He likes bananas.

Studios

MacDowell

Eliot Schrefer worked in the MacDowell studio.

Built in 1912, Pine Studio was renamed MacDowell Studio in 1943 in recognition of support from a group of Edward MacDowell’s music students. It was built as a composers’ studio and the stuccoed walls were intended to be soundproof. Like many of the studios on property, MacDowell was winterized in the 1950s when the program began welcoming…

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