Discipline: Literature – nonfiction

Christopher Turner

Discipline: Literature – nonfiction
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2009

Christopher Turner worked on Adventures in the Orgasmatron: How the Sexual Revolution Came to America, a book about Wilhelm Reich, Fritz Perls and Herbert Marcuse. It was published in 2011 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Turner is an editor of Cabinet magazine and a regular contributor to the London Review of Books, the Sunday Telegraph, and The Guardian.

Studios

Heyward

Christopher Turner worked in the Heyward studio.

The Lodge Annex, a wing on the west side of the men’s dormitory (The Lodge), was completed in 1926. Initially intended as an apartment for a caretaker, the space was soon repurposed as a live-in studio for writers. In recognition of a major endowment gift from the DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Foundation, Lodge Annex was…

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