Discipline: Literature – fiction

Jennifer Vanderbes

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2006
More: www.jennifervanderbes.net
Jennifer Vanderbes is a novelist, non-fiction writer, and screenwriter whose work has been translated into 16 languages. Her first novel, Easter Island, was named a "best book of 2003" by the Washington Post and Christian Science Monitor. Vanderbes' play, Primating, is currently being developed for the stage, and she has written dramatic pilots for Bravo and Lifetime. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and The Atlantic, and her short fiction has appeared in Granta, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Best New American Voices. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library, a Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellowship, a Colgate University Creative Writing Fellowship, and a Truman Capote Fellowship.

Studios

Putnam

Jennifer Vanderbes worked in the Putnam studio.

The Graphics Studio (as it was originally named) was converted to its present use in 1972–1974 through a grant from the Putnam Foundation, and originally served the property as both a power house and pump house. Well water was pumped from a large cistern to Hillcrest, the Foreman’s Cottage, and the lower buildings closer to…

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