Discipline: Literature – nonfiction

Jonathan Blunk

Discipline: Literature – nonfiction
Region: Crompond, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2008, 2009, 2010, 2016

Jonathan Blunk worked towards completing the authorized biography of the American poet James Wright. He served as a coeditor of Wright's Selected Letters (FSG, 2005).

Studios

MacDowell

Jonathan Blunk 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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