Discipline: Theatre – playwriting

Larry Maness

Discipline: Theatre – playwriting
MacDowell Fellowships: 1972

Larry Maness is an author and playwright of four novels: Nantucket Revenge, A Once Perfect Place, Strangler (all centering on the character of private investigator Jake Eaton), and The Voice of God; two book of plays, 3 Plays, introduced by Pulitzer Prize-winner William Inge, and This House Has Quiet Rooms. His plays have been produced in New York, Boston, and theatres around the country and in Europe. His novel A Once Perfect Place was selected as part of the Literature of Social Change Collection at Duke University, and his novel Strangler was a Detective Book Club selection.

Studios

Sorosis

Larry Maness worked in the Sorosis studio.

Sorosis Studio was funded by the New York Carol Club of Sorosis. The small, masonry studio was designed by F. Winsor, Jr., the architect who also designed Savidge Library (1926) and Mixter Studio (1927). At the time of construction, the large porch on the southeast façade offered a spectacular mountain view that has since been obscured…

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