Discipline: Literature – fiction

Joan Wickersham

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Cambridge, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2004, 2006, 2010, 2012

Joan Wickersham finished a new book of fiction, The News from Spain, which was published in 2012. Her previous book The Suicide Index was a National Book Award Finalist in 2008.

Studios

Phi Beta

Joan Wickersham 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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