Discipline: Literature

Herbert Ruhm

Discipline: Literature
Region: New Paltz, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1971, 1972

Herbert Ruhm is the writer of the Hard Boiled Detective series.

Studios

Sprague-Smith

Herbert Ruhm 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…

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