Discipline: Literature

Eric Metaxas

Discipline: Literature
Region: Brookline, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1987
Eric Metaxas is an American author, speaker, and radio host. He is known for three biographies, Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery (2013), Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy (2011), and Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World (2017). He has also written humor, children's books, and scripts for VeggieTales. Metaxas is the founder and host of the NYC-based event series, "Socrates in the City: Conversations on the Examined Life" and the host of the nationally syndicated radio program, “The Eric Metaxas Show.” Other writing has been published in the Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal.

Studios

Garland

Eric Metaxas 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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