Discipline: Literature – nonfiction

Elizabeth Greenwood

Discipline: Literature – nonfiction
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2014

Elizabeth Greenwood worked on her first nonfiction book about people who have faked their own deaths, entitled PLAYING DEAD: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud, published by Simon & Schuster in 2016.

Studios

Wood

Elizabeth Greenwood 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…

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