Discipline: Literature

Harrison Kinney

Discipline: Literature
Region: White Plains, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1969

Harrison Kinney (8/16/1921 – 2/9/2019) was a writer, reporter, and editor from Aroostook County, Maine. He graduated from Houlton High School, Phi Beta Kappa from Washington and Lee University, and with a master’s in English literature from Columbia University. Over the course of his career, Kinney worked as a reporter for The New York Magazine, a senior editor of McCall’s Magazine, an executive speech writer with IBM, and a writer on staff of IBM’s Think Magazine. His articles and fiction appear in major publications such as The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, McCall’s, Good Housekeeping, Reader’s Digest, American Heritage, and the New York Times Book Review. He has also published a novel, a few of non-fiction works, and several children’s books.

Studios

Monday Music

Harrison Kinney worked in the Monday Music studio.

Given to the residency by the Monday Music Club of Orange, NJ, Monday Music Studio is sited next to an enormous boulder deposited by glaciers thousands of years ago. A small dormer once pierced the east slope of the roof, but after damage suffered in the 1938 hurricane, the roof was rebuilt without the dormer. The interior…

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