Discipline: Literature – fiction

Frederick Johnson

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Litchfield, CT
MacDowell Fellowships: 2017

Frederick Todd Johnson is a musician, playwright, and novelist. In residence, he completed the first draft of a novel, tentatively titled The Bird Call Means Migration.

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MacDowell

Frederick Johnson 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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