Discipline: Literature – nonfiction

Laura Schenone

Discipline: Literature – nonfiction
Region: Montclair, NJ
MacDowell Fellowships: 2013

Laura Schenone worked on her third book, The Dogs of Avalon: The Race to Save Animals in Peril. Her first book, A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove, won a James Beard book award in 2004.

Studios

Mixter

Laura Schenone worked in the Mixter studio.

Built in 1927–1930, the Florence Kilpatrick Mixter Studio was funded by its namesake and designed by the architect F. Winsor, Jr., who also designed MacDowell's original Savidge Library in 1925. Mixter Studio, solidly built of yellow and grey-hued granite, once had sweeping views of Pack Monadnock to the east. The lush forest has now grown…

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