Discipline: Literature

Daniel Meltzer

Discipline: Literature
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1980, 1982, 1987
Daniel Meltzer (1940-2014) was a playwright, short-story writer, and author of scores of columns and essays, many of which were published in The Villager. His published work includes the short-story collection Outsiders, a memoir, Nothing Happened Here, Volume I, and hundreds of essays and op-ed pieces, both humorous and serious, that were syndicated and appeared in newspapers across the country. His plays, including Movie of the Month, Intermission, and The Square Root of Love, were published by Samuel French and were produced at Circle Repertory Theater and The Neighborhood Playhouse in New York, and by theater groups across the country and in Canada, Italy, Spain, Australia, and New Zealand. Meltzer won a Pushcart Prize for fiction in 1997, the O. Henry Prize for fiction in 1992 and the Central Ohio Theatre Critics Award for Best New Play of the Year in 2000. Beginning in 1979, he taught writing and theater at various programs and universities, holding the post of adjunct professor at New York University, Yeshiva University, and Marymount Manhattan College. He was co-director of the NYU Journalism workshop, and taught at Pennsylvania State University, Seton Hall University, Hofstra University, and at programs at Chautauqua, Henry Street Settlement, and The Writer’s Voice at the YMCA.

Studios

Banks

Daniel Meltzer 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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