Verlyn Klinkenborg is an American non-fiction author, academic, and former newspaper editor. He was born in Meeker, CO and raised on a farm in Iowa. He attended the University of California, Berkeley, earned a B.A from Pomona College, and a Ph.D. from Princeton University, both in English literature. Klinkenborg taught creative writing at Fordham University, St. Olaf College, Bennington College, Sarah Lawrence College, Bard College, Pomona College, and Harvard University. In 1991, he earned the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writer’s Award and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. He has published many books as well as articles in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, Esquire, National Geographic, and Mother Jones. He has also written a series of editorial opinions in The New York Times and currently teaches creative writing at Yale University and lives in Upstate New York.
Verlyn Klinkenborg
Studios
Watson
Verlyn Klinkenborg worked in the Watson studio.
Built in 1916 in memory of Regina Watson of Chicago, a musician and teacher, this studio was donated by a group of her friends, along with funds for its maintenance. Originally designed to serve as a composers’ studio with room for performance, Watson was used as a recital hall for chamber music for a…