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Caleb Crain is the author of the novels Necessary Errors (Penguin, 2013) and Overthrow (Viking, 2019), as well as the scholarly study American Sympathy: Men, Friendship, and Literature in the New Nation (Yale, 2001). He has written for the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, Harper’s, the Atlantic, the Paris Review, n+1, and the New York Times Book Review. He was born in Texas, grew up in Massachusetts, and now lives in Brooklyn.
Portrait by Peter Terzian
Caleb Crain worked in the Barnard studio.
Originally built near MacDowell's Union Street entrance, the Barnard Studio — which was funded by Barnard College music students — was re-located to its current site in 1910. When the small structure was moved, its size was doubled with the addition of a second room. This remodeling, financed by Mrs. Thomas E. Emery of Cincinnati…