Amanda Eyre Ward worked on the first draft of her fifth novel, Homecoming. Her other books include The Nearness of You (2017), The Same Sky (2015), Close Your Eyes (2011), Love Stories in This Town (2009), Forgive Me (2007), How to be Lost (2004), and Sleep Toward Heaven (2003).
Amanda Ward
Studios
MacDowell
Amanda Ward worked in the MacDowell studio.
Built in 1912, Pine Studio was renamed MacDowell Studio in 1943 in recognition of support from a group of Edward MacDowell’s music students. It was built as a composers’ studio and the stuccoed walls were intended to be soundproof. Like many of the studios on property, MacDowell was winterized in the 1950s when the program began welcoming…