Discipline: Literature – nonfiction

Louisa Thomas

Discipline: Literature – nonfiction
Region: Washington, D.C.
MacDowell Fellowships: 2010

Louisa Thomas worked on her first book, Conscience: Two Soldiers, Two Pacifists, One Family — a Test of Will and Faith in World War I (2012). This book tells the story of Norman Thomas and his family during the World War I years. Her book Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams was published in 2016. She writes for Newsweek, and her writing has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Vogue, The New Yorker, and other places.

Studios

Sprague-Smith

Louisa Thomas 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…

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