Writer Joan Colebrook (1910-1981) published two novels in the 1940s, one about pre-World War II life in England, and the other, The Northerner (1948), about life in Australia, where she grew up. Colebrook received most praise, however, for her nonfiction books. In The Cross of Lassitude: Portraits of Five Delinquents (1967), she used her experiences as a social worker and officer in women’s prisons to track five teenage girls through the penal system. She also wrote for Commentary and The New Yorker.
Discipline:
Literature
Joan Colebrook VanKirk
Discipline:
Literature
Region: Truro, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1964, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1974, 1976
Studios
Mixter
Joan Colebrook VanKirk worked in the Mixter studio.
Built in 1927–1930, the Florence Kilpatrick Mixter Studio was funded by its namesake and designed by the architect F. Winsor, Jr., who also designed MacDowell's original Savidge Library in 1925. Mixter Studio, solidly built of yellow and grey-hued granite, once had sweeping views of Pack Monadnock to the east. The lush forest has now grown…