Iris Dornfeld McWilliams (1912-2010) was a novelist and was born in Roseville, California, the daughter of Percy and Etta Hewitt Dornfeld. She attended Sacramento State College, transferring to Mills College, where she graduated in 1935. She worked as a teacher and in the theater before marrying Carey McWilliams, long-time editor of The Nation magazine, in 1941. The family moved to New York in 1950. Dornfeld was the author of Jeeney Ray, published in 1962 by Viking Press, and of Boy Gravely, published by Knopf in 1965. Both novels achieved considerable critical success: Jeeney Ray was subsequently made into a movie for television.
Discipline:
Literature
Iris Dornfeld McWilliams
Discipline:
Literature
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1971
Studios
Veltin
Iris Dornfeld McWilliams worked in the Veltin studio.
Veltin Studio was donated by alumni of the Veltin School, a school for girls in New York with a highly respected visual arts department. As the plaque just outside the entrance attests, this studio was used by poet Edwin Arlington Robinson during most of the 24 summers he spent at MacDowell. Perhaps most famously, Thornton Wilder put the finishing…