Discipline: Literature

Clara Stillman

Discipline: Literature
MacDowell Fellowships: 1948

Clara Stillman (1882-1959) was an American writer and was a member of the Committee for Cultural Freedom, formerly Club: Town Hall (New York). She was educated at the Institut des Essarts-Boblet, Paris, France, 1894-1896, Mission Gerrish’s School, Englewood, New Jersey, 1896-1868, Park Avenue School, New York City, 1898-1899, Barnard College, 1899-1903 (Bachelor of Arts). She did her graduate work at Columbia and New York University. She was a substitute teacher in New York high schools and a teacher of history of education at Brooklyn (New York) College, 1934-1935. Stillman has been listed as a notable writer by Marquis Who's Who.

Studios

Monday Music

Clara Stillman worked in the Monday Music studio.

Given to the residency by the Monday Music Club of Orange, NJ, Monday Music Studio is sited next to an enormous boulder deposited by glaciers thousands of years ago. A small dormer once pierced the east slope of the roof, but after damage suffered in the 1938 hurricane, the roof was rebuilt without the dormer. The interior…

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