Dorothy Wickenden is the executive editor of The New Yorker and the host of the magazine's weekly podcast Politics and More. Her book Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West, was a New York Times bestseller. At MacDowell, she worked on The Agitators: Three Friends who Fought for Abolition and Women’s Rights, published by Scribner in March 2021. The Wall Street Journal described it as “absorbing and richly rewarding,” and The New York Times called it “an epic and intimate history . . . a masterpiece.”
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
Dorothy Wickenden
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
Region: Bronxville, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2018
Fellow Works Supported by MacDowell
The Agitators: Three Friends who Fought for Abolition and Women’s Rights (Nonfiction Book)
Studios
Wood
Dorothy Wickenden worked in the Wood studio.
Wood Studio, given to the residency program by Mrs. Frederick Trevor Hill, was completed in 1913 in memory of Mrs. Hill’s mother, Helen Ogden Wood. Like Schelling Studio, the building is sided with large, overlapping pieces of hemlock bark. When the studio was renovated in 1995, MacDowell staff researched the origins of this unusual building material and…