Discipline: Literature

Christie MacKaye

Discipline: Literature
MacDowell Fellowships: 1932, 1955
Christy MacKaye Barnes (1909-2002) was an American writer and editor. After two years at college, she traveled with her sister Arvia to Europe and, in Dornach, joined the Anthroposophical Society. When she returned to the U.S., she published a book of poems, Wind-in-the-Grass. She married Henry Barnes in 1939 and, a year later during a visit with Marie Steiner, received a diploma for the art of speech. She went on to become a Waldorf teacher, the editor of Journal for Anthroposophy, and numerous other activities. Her books include For the Love of Literature (1997), Imagination’s Music (2004), and A Wound Awoke Me (1994).

Studios

Veltin

Christie MacKaye worked in the Veltin studio.

Veltin Studio was donated by alumni of the Veltin School, a school for girls in New York with a highly respected visual arts department. As the plaque just outside the entrance attests, this studio was used by poet Edwin Arlington Robinson during most of the 24 summers he spent at MacDowell. Perhaps most famously, Thornton Wilder put the finishing…

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