Discipline: Literature

David Evanier

Discipline: Literature
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1969, 1972, 1975, 1981

David Evanier has published nine books: The Nonconformers, The Swinging Headhunter, The One-tar Jew, Red Love, Wo’s Sorry Now with Joe Pantoliano, Making the Wiseguys Weep: The Jimmy Roselli Story, Roman Candle: The Life of Bobby Darin, All the Things you Are: The Life of Tony Bennett, and The Great Kisser. He has been published in Best American Short Stories and has received the Aga Khan Fiction Prize and the McGinniss-Ritchie Short Fiction Award. He has been a Fellow of MacDowell five times, and a Fellow of Yaddo and the Wurlitzer Foundation. He was been Writer-in-Residence at The Writers Community, a longtime member of the Writers Room, and has taught creative writing at UCLA and Douglas College in Vancouver. He was founding editor of the literary magazine Event.

Studios

Garland

David Evanier worked in the Garland studio.

Marian MacDowell and friends originally named this studio in memory of Anna Baetz, the nurse who helped care for Edward MacDowell in the waning years of his life. With generous support from the Garland family, the studio was renovated in 2013 and renamed the Peter and Mary Garland Studio. The inward opening, diamond-pane windows were replaced…

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