Elinor Fuchs, a professor at the Yale School of Drama, has written widely on modern and contemporary theater. Among her five published books, The Death of Character won the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. She is the co-author, with historian Joyce Antler, of an award-winning play, Year One of the Empire, and editor of Plays of the Holocaust: An International Anthology. She wrote theater criticism for The Village Voice for ten years, and has been a frequent contributor to American Theater, and other publications. Her most recent book is Making an Exit: A Mother-Daughter Drama with Alzheimer’s, Machine Tools, and Laughter.
Discipline:
Literature
Elinor Fuchs
Discipline:
Literature
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1982
Studios
New Hampshire
Elinor Fuchs worked in the New Hampshire studio.
New Hampshire Studio, originally named Peterborough Studio, was given to MacDowell by Mr. and Mrs. William Schofield, Mrs. H. A. Chamberlain, Mrs. Andrew Draper, and Miss Ruth Cheney. The studio was renamed in 1943. The Gilbert Verney Foundation established an endowed maintenance fund in 1990, and a bequest in memory of MacDowell Fellow Victor Candell underwrote the…