William S. Patten, author of the nonfiction book My Three Fathers (2008), worked on a new book about the public perception of our nationwide correctional system.
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
William Patten
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
Region: Mount Desert, ME
MacDowell Fellowships: 2015
Studios
Veltin
William Patten worked in the Veltin studio.
Veltin Studio was donated by alumni of the Veltin School, a school for girls in New York with a highly respected visual arts department. As the plaque just outside the entrance attests, this studio was used by poet Edwin Arlington Robinson during most of the 24 summers he spent at MacDowell. Perhaps most famously, Thornton Wilder put the finishing…