Discipline: Literature

Ivan Beede

Discipline: Literature
MacDowell Fellowships: 1936, 1937, 1938
Ivan Beede (1896-1946) was an American writer born in Surprise, NE. Beede studied at the University of Nebraska, and after graduation moved to Boston to work as a reporter and editorial writer for The Boston Post. Beede traveled between Europe and America often while working as an associate editor for The Transatlantic Review. His published works include his novel Prairie Women (Harper & Brothers 1930), and several magazine articles he completed while working as a freelance writer in New York.

Studios

Sprague-Smith

Ivan Beede 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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