Discipline: Literature – fiction

Bryan Charles

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Knoxville, TN
MacDowell Fellowships: 2006, 2006, 2012

Bryan Charles is the author of the novel Grab on to Me Tightly as if I Knew the Way, the memoir There's a Road to Everywhere Except Where You Came From, and Wowee Zowee, a book about the band Pavement. He worked on his second novel during his three residencies, and wrote portions of his memoir at MacDowell in 2012.

Studios

Garland

Bryan Charles 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…

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