Carolyn Cooke is the author of Amor and Psycho (2013), Daughters of the Revolution (named one of the best books of 2011 by the San Francisco Chronicle and the New Yorker Magazine) and The Bostons (winner of the PEN/Bingham Award). She worked on a new novel.
Carolyn Cooke
Studios
Van Zorn (formerly Kirby)
Carolyn Cooke worked in the Van Zorn (formerly Kirby) studio.
Constructed thanks to a bequest from Sarah L. Kirby, Kirby Studio was the last new building to be erected during Mrs. MacDowell’s leadership (1907-1951). The load-bearing masonry walls were laid by local mason Augustus Beaulieu atop a fieldstone foundation. A 1995 renovation preserved the brick fireplace with wooden mantel and…