Discipline: Literature – fiction

Christopher Marquis

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Washington, D.C.
MacDowell Fellowships: 2003
Christopher Marquis (1961-2005) was a novelist as well as a journalist, and worked for The New York Times, specializing in Latin American politics. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1984 with a bachelor's degree in literature, and earned a master's degree in journalism from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. He was a Nieman fellow at Harvard in 1998 and 1999. His novel, A Hole in the Heart was published in 2003 to favorable reviews. He had taken a leave of absence from The Times months before his death to work on a second novel.

Studios

Phi Beta

Christopher Marquis worked in the Phi Beta studio.

Funded by the Phi Beta Fraternity, a national professional fraternity of music and speech founded in 1912, Phi Beta Studio was built between 1929–1931 of granite quarried on the MacDowell grounds. The small studio is a simple in design, but displays a pleasing combination of materials with its granite walls and colorful slate roofing. Inside is…

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