J.D. Dolan’s work has appeared in Esquire, The Nation, Shenandoah, The Antioch Review, The Mississippi Review, New Stories from the South, and Best American Sports Writing. His memoir, Phoenix: A Brother’s Life, was published in 2000 by Alfred A. Knopf, and was named one of the best nonfiction books of the year by The Los Angeles Times, and one of the top 10 memoirs of the year by the Detroit Free Press. Dolan teaches in the M.F.A. and Ph.D. program in creative writing at Western Michigan University. At MacDowell, he worked on a screenplay based on the life of the 1920s and 1930s pool champion Ralph Greenleaf.
Discipline:
Literature – fiction, Literature – nonfiction
J.D. Dolan
Discipline:
Literature – fiction, Literature – nonfiction
Region: Kalamazoo, MI
MacDowell Fellowships: 2000, 2001
Studios
Wood
J.D. Dolan worked in the Wood studio.
Wood Studio, given to the residency program by Mrs. Frederick Trevor Hill, was completed in 1913 in memory of Mrs. Hill’s mother, Helen Ogden Wood. Like Schelling Studio, the building is sided with large, overlapping pieces of hemlock bark. When the studio was renovated in 1995, MacDowell staff researched the origins of this unusual building material and…