Rebecca Godfrey spent her time at MacDowell revising the first 10 chapters of her novel, The Dilettante, forthcoming from Knopf. The novel explores the brief affair between Peggy Guggenheim and Samuel Beckett in Paris, 1937. Godfrey is the author of Under The Bridge and The Torn Skirt. She is currently working on a novel. Girls In Trees, edited by Godfrey, includes new work from 33 artists, including Fellows Nick Flynn, Samantha Hunt, Cate Marvin, and Mary Gaitskill, and was featured in The New York Times and New York magazine. She lives in Red Hook, New York and teaches writing at Columbia University.
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Rebecca Godfrey
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Region: Red Hook, NY
MacDowell fellowships: 2017
More:
rebeccagodfrey.com
Studios
Sprague-Smith
Rebecca Godfrey 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…