Discipline: Literature

Jeanne Schinto

Discipline: Literature
Region: Andover, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1987
More: www.jeanneschinto.com
Jeanne Schinto has been an independent writer since 1973. She is the author of Huddle Fever: Living in the Immigrant City (Knopf, 1995), a memoir of the 10 years she spent in the old textile-mill city of Lawrence, Massachusetts. She has also published articles on art, history, and the material culture in a variety of publications, including The Atlantic Monthly, Gastronomica, Fine Art Connoisseur, and DoubleTake Magazine. Her essays and reviews have appeared in numerous other places: The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, Boston Magazine, The Women’s Review of Books, Yankee Magazine, and The Nation. Her creative nonfiction has been in The Yale Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, The Antioch Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and many other literary periodicals. Her short fiction has been collected in Shadow Bands (Ontario Review Press, 1988) and in several anthologies, including Best American Short Stories (edited by John Updike), The Ways We Live Now, You Don’t Know What Love Is, Perfect Lies, and Imagining America: Stories from the Promised Land. In addition, she has edited three anthologies of her own. She is also the author of a novel, Children of Men (Persea Books, 1991).

Studios

New Jersey

Jeanne Schinto worked in the New Jersey studio.

The yellow clapboard New Jersey Studio, located on a grassy, sloping site, was funded by the New Jersey Federation of Women’s Clubs and built as an exact replica of Monday Music Studio (1913). The studio’s porch rests on fieldstone piers that increase in height as the ground slopes to the west. Like Monday Music Studio, New Jersey…

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