Discipline: Literature

Grace Croff

Discipline: Literature
MacDowell Fellowships: 1934, 1935

Grace Croff, who died in 1965, was an Assistant Professor of English at Pennsylvania College for Women and was an early mentor to Rachel Carson who graduated from the college.

Studios

Garland

Grace Croff 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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