Ann Harleman is the author of the story collections Thoreau’s Laundry and Happiness, which won the Iowa Short Fiction Award; and the novels The Year She Disappeared, Bitter Lake, and Tell Me, Signora. Among her awards are Guggenheim and Rockefeller fellowships, three Rhode Island State Arts Council grants, the Berlin Prize in Literature, the Iowa Short Fiction Award, the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award, and the O. Henry Award. In an earlier life, Ann was the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in linguistics from Princeton University, and she lived and worked behind the Iron Curtain. Having taught at the University of Washington, MIT, Wesleyan, Wheaton, and the Rhode Island School of Design, she now makes her home within sight of San Francisco Bay.
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Ann Harleman
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Region: Oakland, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1999, 2004
More:
www.annharleman.com
Studios
Garland
Ann Harleman worked in the Garland studio.
Marian MacDowell and friends originally named this studio in memory of Anna Baetz, the nurse who helped care for Edward MacDowell in the waning years of his life. With generous support from the Garland family, the studio was renovated in 2013 and renamed the Peter and Mary Garland Studio. The inward opening, diamond-pane windows were replaced…