Beth Schwartzapfel is a freelance journalist specializing in long-form and narrative journalism, with a focus on the criminal justice system and prisons and jails. She was at work on her first book, a "true life novel" (with a nod to The Executioner's Song) about a wrongful conviction and posthumous exoneration in Texas.
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
Beth Schwartzapfel
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
Region: Roslindale, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2011
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Studios
Mansfield
Beth Schwartzapfel worked in the Mansfield studio.
The Helen Coolidge Mansfield Studio was donated by graduates of the Mansfield War Service Classes for Reconstruction Aides. Helen Mansfield helped found the New York MacDowell Club. The small, shingled frame structure with stone foundation was originally fronted on the west side by a neat white picket fence and gate, a garden, and a stone pathway…