Harry Kurz was a writer and professor who was born in New York. After World War I, he taught at Carleton College and the University of South Dakota. He later led the languages department at Knox College and was the professor and chair of the Roman languages department at the University of Nebraska and Queens College. Kurz then held a John Hay Whitney professorship at C.W. Post College (not Long Island University) and was later a visiting professor at Stanford University and the Claremont Colleges in California. He also edited many French works for publication by Columbia Press and often contributed to the Atlantic Monthly as well as other professional journals.
Discipline:
Literature
Harry Kurz
Discipline:
Literature
MacDowell Fellowships: 1931
Studios
Sprague-Smith
Harry Kurz worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.
In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…