Discipline: Literature

Curtis Harnack

Discipline: Literature
Region: Saratoga Springs, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1966
Curtis Harnack (1927-2013) was an American writer. He studied English at Grinnell College before completing a master's degree at Columbia University. He began a career in teaching, initially at his alma mater Grinnell College, and then at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. During this time, he was also involved in the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. He was involved with the artists' community Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, New York, serving as the community's president between 1971 and 1987. His works include the novels The Work of an Ancient Hand (1960) and Limits of the Land (1979), and the memoirs We Have All Gone Away (1973) and The Attic (1993).

Studios

Mansfield

Curtis Harnack worked in the Mansfield studio.

The Helen Coolidge Mansfield Studio was donated by graduates of the Mansfield War Service Classes for Reconstruction Aides. Helen Mansfield helped found the New York MacDowell Club. The small, shingled frame structure with stone foundation was originally fronted on the west side by a neat white picket fence and gate, a garden, and a stone pathway…

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