Discipline: Literature

Arthur Stratton

Discipline: Literature
MacDowell Fellowships: 1941, 1947, 1948, 1968, 1969
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Arthur Mills Stratton (1911–1975) was an American author and traveler. He was a playwright, a novelist, an OSS agent, a teacher in Turkey, and an assistant college professor in the U.S., before working for the CIA for about 10 years and becoming a travel writer and biographer. While serving with the American Field Service as a World War II ambulance driver, he was twice awarded the Croix de Guerre for bravery under fire, the first time on the Western Front, the second in North Africa. His first major book was One Man's India (1955), while Madagascar was to inspire his second travel book, The Great Red Island (1964), a history of the country presented in the form of a biography weaving back and forth between the past and the present.

Studios

Phi Beta

Arthur Stratton worked in the Phi Beta studio.

Funded by the Phi Beta Fraternity, a national professional fraternity of music and speech founded in 1912, Phi Beta Studio was built between 1929–1931 of granite quarried on the MacDowell grounds. The small studio is a simple in design, but displays a pleasing combination of materials with its granite walls and colorful slate roofing. Inside is…

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