Discipline: Literature

Jackson Giddens

Discipline: Literature
MacDowell Fellowships: 1973

Jackson Giddens was a non-fiction writer and formerly an Assistant Professor at MIT. He wrote about Woodrow Wilson’s approach to communications with other nations, with special emphasis on the concept of open diplomacy and its implications for the U.S.

Studios

Phi Beta

Jackson Giddens worked in the Phi Beta studio.

Funded by the Phi Beta Fraternity, a national professional fraternity of music and speech founded in 1912, Phi Beta Studio was built between 1929–1931 of granite quarried on the MacDowell grounds. The small studio is a simple in design, but displays a pleasing combination of materials with its granite walls and colorful slate roofing. Inside is…

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