Discipline: Literature

Corinne Browne

Discipline: Literature
Region: Forest Hills, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1977, 1984
More: www.corinnebrowne.com
Corinne de Laittre Browne, who writes under the name Corinne Browne, worked as project developer and editor for complementary health book packager Harriet Harvey, Inc. In 1982 Browne received the Women’s International Writing Guild’s Woman of the Year Award presented at the United Nations. In 1990 she chaired the Holistic Health section at the first Soviet American Peace Conference, held in Moscow, and founded the International Center for Better Health, the first western organization to promote women’s healthcare and AIDS education in the former USSR. Throughout the 1990s, she ran the organization. In 2001 she returned to writing and since then has produced novels Billy’s Bay and Santa Barbara, as well as screenplays Maggie and Bean (with Barbara Davies) and The Promise (with Leke Tasi). In order to write The Promise, Browne spent five years researching Albanian history and interviewing people in that country. Her co-author is a former prisoner in the Albanian gulag. She has written the script for an atomic history documentary film, The Dragon’s Tail, based on her book, Time Bomb. Browne is a member of the PEN American Center, and has been awarded residencies at the Wurlitzer Foundation and Annaghmakerrig, in Ireland.

Studios

Banks

Corinne Browne worked in the Banks studio.

Banks, an ell on the north end of the Lodge dormitory, was first used as an artist’s studio in 1970. Since then, it has played host to an extraordinary list of writers working in several disciplines. In all seasons, Fellows have enjoyed the pastoral view through the French doors facing a field…

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