Discipline: Literature

Evelyn Wells

Discipline: Literature
MacDowell Fellowships: 1963
Evelyn Wells (1899-1984) was a 20th-century American biographer and author best known for her biographies of the ancient Egyptian royals of the 18th dynasty, Nefertiti and Hatshepsut.

Studios

Phi Beta

Evelyn Wells worked in the Phi Beta studio.

Funded by the Phi Beta Fraternity, a national professional fraternity of music and speech founded in 1912, Phi Beta Studio was built between 1929–1931 of granite quarried on the MacDowell grounds. The small studio is a simple in design, but displays a pleasing combination of materials with its granite walls and colorful slate roofing. Inside is…

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