Discipline: Literature

Hermann Hagedorn

Discipline: Literature
MacDowell Fellowships: 1910, 1916, 1935, 1936, 1937
Hermann Hagedorn (1882-1964) was an American author, poet, and biographer. From 1909 to 1911, he was an instructor in English at Harvard. Hagedorn was a friend and biographer of Theodore Roosevelt. He also served as secretary and director of the Theodore Roosevelt Association from 1919 to 1957. Drawing upon his friendship with Roosevelt, Hagedorn was able to elicit the support of Roosevelt's friends and associates' personal recollections in his biography, which was first published in 1918 and then updated in 1922, and which is oriented toward children. The book has summary questions for young readers at the end of each chapter. Drawing on the same friends and associates of Roosevelt, Hagedorn also published the first serious study of TR's experience as a rancher in the Badlands after the death of his wife and mother in 1884. Hagedorn's access to Roosevelt associates in these two books has been used by historian Edmund Morris in his two highly acclaimed biographical books on Roosevelt published in 1979 and 2001.

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Schelling

Hermann Hagedorn worked in the Schelling studio.

Marian MacDowell funded construction of this studio the year that the organization was established and the first artists arrived for residency. It was called Bark Studio until 1933, when it was renamed in honor of Ernest Schelling, a composer, pianist, and orchestral leader who served as president of what was then called the Edward MacDowell…

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