Discipline: Literature – nonfiction

Michael Massing

Discipline: Literature – nonfiction
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2007
Michael Massing is an American contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review. Michael Massing received his bachelor of arts from Harvard and an M.S. from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He often writes for the New York Review of Books concerning the media and foreign affairs. He has written for The American Prospect, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic Monthly. In addition to his magazine contributions, he has written on the War on Drugs in his book, The Fix (2002), and on American journalism, Now They Tell Us: The American Press and Iraq. Massing received the MacArthur Fellowship in 1992.

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MacDowell

Michael Massing worked in the MacDowell studio.

Built in 1912, Pine Studio was renamed MacDowell Studio in 1943 in recognition of support from a group of Edward MacDowell’s music students. It was built as a composers’ studio and the stuccoed walls were intended to be soundproof. Like many of the studios on property, MacDowell was winterized in the 1950s when the program began welcoming…

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