Discipline: Literature

Frieda Arkin

Discipline: Literature
Region: Easton, MD
MacDowell Fellowships: 1972
More: www.us.macmillan.com/author/friedaarkin
Frieda Arkin’s work has been twice selected for Best American Short Stories and her first novel, The Dorp, was published in 1969 to wide critical acclaim. After a long hiatus (35 years) from fiction, when she turned to raising a family and writing a series of cookbooks, Frieda joined the late Andre Dubus’s writing group, prospering under his mentorship while completing Hedwig and Berti.

Studios

New Hampshire

Frieda Arkin 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…

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