Frances Colby Rogers (1904-1981) was an American writer and daughter of Bainbridge Colby and MacDowell Fellow, novelist Natalie Sedgwick Colby. Colby Rogers wrote The Black Winds Blow (1940) and The Apple Must Be Bitten (1944), and co-authored 5,000 Years of Gems and Jewelry and Mr. Brady’s Camera Boy (1951) with Alice Beard. Between 1944 and 1953, Colby Rogers resided at MacDowell five times.
Discipline:
Literature
Frances Colby Rogers
Discipline:
Literature
MacDowell Fellowships: 1944, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953
Studios
Phi Beta
Frances Colby Rogers 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…