Discipline: Literature – fiction

Robert Cabot

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Seattle, WA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2002
A veteran of many of the campaigns of World War II, Robert Cabot received degrees from Harvard College and Yale Law School, served for 10 years in the Marshall Plan and foreign aid programs in Italy, Thailand, Sri Lanka, and Washington, D.C., and resigned from the foreign service in protest over U.S. policy in Southeast Asia. He has since worked with intentional communities, the citizen diplomacy movement, and environmental and social change projects. He lived for many years in Italy and Greece, returning to the United States in a solo transatlantic sail with his 30-foot sloop in 1976. Writing, however, is his first love. He has written several novels. The most recent, The Isle of Khería, was published in 2012. Several of his articles are also published. Cabot is a fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Ucross Foundation. Cabot lives on Whidbey Island, WA, with his wife Penny. Between them, they have six children, and a bevy of children's children. For several months a year he retreats to a mountain town in Southeastern Arizona where he is working on a memoir and a novel.

Studios

Sorosis

Robert Cabot worked in the Sorosis studio.

Sorosis Studio was funded by the New York Carol Club of Sorosis. The small, masonry studio was designed by F. Winsor, Jr., the architect who also designed Savidge Library (1926) and Mixter Studio (1927). At the time of construction, the large porch on the southeast façade offered a spectacular mountain view that has since been obscured…

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