Jerome Badanes (1937-1995) was an American novelist and filmmaker. He studied at the University of Michigan, where he was awarded the Avery Hapgood Award in Poetry, and was the founder and editor of a literary journal for Students for a Democratic Society. Badanes is most widely known for the script he wrote for 1981 documentary, Image Before My Eyes, and his book The Final Opus of Leon Solomon, both of which centered around Jewish life and World War II. Badanes held teaching positions at Vassar College and SUNY Purchase before moving to Sarah Lawrence College as the chairman of the graduate program for fiction writing, where he remained until his death.
Discipline:
Literature
Jerome Badanes
Discipline:
Literature
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1990, 1991, 1993
Studios
Monday Music
Jerome Badanes worked in the Monday Music studio.
Given to the residency by the Monday Music Club of Orange, NJ, Monday Music Studio is sited next to an enormous boulder deposited by glaciers thousands of years ago. A small dormer once pierced the east slope of the roof, but after damage suffered in the 1938 hurricane, the roof was rebuilt without the dormer. The interior…