Nicholas Montemarano is an American writer originally from Queens, New York. He is the author of three novels, The Senator's Children, The Book of Why, and A Fine Place, and the short story collection If the Sky Falls. His fiction has been published widely in magazines such as Esquire, Zoetrope: All-Story, Tin House, DoubleTake, The Gettysburg Review, The Antioch Review, The Southern Review, and AGNI. Montemarano's first novel, A Fine Place, explored the aftermath of a racially motivated murder in Brooklyn. In "Truth in Fiction," an essay Montemarano published in DoubleTake magazine, he wrote about how the novel was inspired by the real-life murder of Yusuf Hawkins in Bensonhurst in 1989. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell and Yaddo. Montemarano received his M.F.A. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He teaches at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and has also taught in the Bennington Writing Seminars.
Nicholas Montemarano
Studios
Sprague-Smith
Nicholas Montemarano 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…