Discipline: Literature – fiction

Ruth Setton

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Allentown, PA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2004

At MacDowell, Ruth Knafo Setton worked on her second novel, If I Forget You. Her first novel, The Road to Fez, would appear in paperback in 2005 as the inaugural work in a new series by the University of Wisconsin Press, "Literature of the Jewish Diasporas." Her work was also forthcoming in the "Schoeken Book of Contemporary Sephardic Literature."

Studios

Sprague-Smith

Ruth Setton 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…

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