Leonard Kriegel is an American author who was born in the Bronx, New York and suffered from polio. He has received Guggenheim, MacDowell, and Rockefeller Fellowships and three of his novels have been New York Times Notable Books of the Year. His writing also includes essays and stories some of which have appeared in Partisan Review, Sewanee Review, and Harper’s.
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Leonard Kriegel
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1976, 1976
Studios
Sprague-Smith
Leonard Kriegel worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.
In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…