Discipline: Literature – fiction

Eric Lehman

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2007, 2011

Eric Gabriel Lehman is the author of the novels Waterboys, Quaspeck, and Summer’s House, as well as short stories and essays that have been published both in the United States and abroad. He worked on his fourth novel, German Fall. He lives in Manhattan and teaches at Queens College in New York.

Studios

Veltin

Eric Lehman worked in the Veltin studio.

Veltin Studio was donated by alumni of the Veltin School, a school for girls in New York with a highly respected visual arts department. As the plaque just outside the entrance attests, this studio was used by poet Edwin Arlington Robinson during most of the 24 summers he spent at MacDowell. Perhaps most famously, Thornton Wilder put the finishing…

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