Discipline: Literature

Henrietta Buckmaster

Discipline: Literature
MacDowell Fellowships: 1954, 1955
Henrietta Buckmaster (1909-1983) wrote several historical studies and novels as well as book reviews for the Saturday Review of Literature and The New York Times. Buckmaster's works reveal a fascination with history. They include two history books—Let My People Go (1941), the story of the underground railroad, and Freedom Bound (1965), which describes the Reconstruction period from 1865 to 1877—as well as numerous historical novels.

Studios

Monday Music

Henrietta Buckmaster 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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