Hannah Green (1927-1996) was an American author, born in Cincinnati, Ohio and lived on Barrow Street, in Greenwich Village, New York. As an undergraduate at Wellesley, she enrolled in Vladimir Nabokov's survey of Russian literature in translation, which she later wrote about in The New Yorker. Ms. Green completed her M.F.A at Stanford University with Wallace Stegner. There she met Tillie Olsen, and the two began a lifelong friendship. In 1959, she was a recipient of the first of many MacDowell residencies. Among her published work are articles in The New Yorker, the books, The Dead of the House (1973) and Golden Spark, Little Saint: My Book of the Hours of Saint Foy (2000), and the children's book, In the City of Paris. For several years, Ms. Green taught in the writing programs at Stanford, Columbia, and New York University. Until her death in 1996, she was married to the American artist and MacDowell Fellow John Wesley (6x 70-78).
Hannah Green
Studios
New Jersey
Hannah Green worked in the New Jersey studio.
The yellow clapboard New Jersey Studio, located on a grassy, sloping site, was funded by the New Jersey Federation of Women’s Clubs and built as an exact replica of Monday Music Studio (1913). The studio’s porch rests on fieldstone piers that increase in height as the ground slopes to the west. Like Monday Music Studio, New Jersey…