Discipline: Literature – fiction

Matt Bondurant

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Oxford, MS
MacDowell Fellowships: 2009, 2013

Matt Bondurant worked on his fourth novel and a television show in development with HBO/Cinemax. His latest novel is The Night Swimmer (Scribner 2012) and his second novel, The Wettest County in the World (Scribner 2008) was a New York Times Editor's Pick and was made into a feature film, Lawless, starring Gary Oldman, Shia Labeouf, Tom Hardy, Jessica Chastain, Mia Wasikowska, and Guy Pearce.

Studios

Chapman

Matt Bondurant worked in the Chapman studio.

Chapman Studio was funded by Mrs. Alice Woodrough Chapman in memory of her husband, composer George Alexander Chapman. Symmetrically massed, the building is stuccoed on the exterior with a natural, unpainted cement. Its unusual half-timbered ornament consists of slender, knotty spruce poles painted a dark green color. A central, peak-roofed entrance porch appears on the north side…

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