Discipline: Literature – fiction

Joan Silber

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1995, 2001, 2005, 2014

Joan Silber worked towards developing a new novel. Her last book, Fools, contained linked stories and was a finalist for the PEN Faulkner Award in 2014.

Studios

Star

Joan Silber worked in the Star studio.

Funded by Alpha Chi Omega, a national fraternity founded in 1885, Star Studio — built in 1911–1912 — was the first studio given to the residency by an outside organization. To this day, Alpha Chi sorority pledges learn the story of Star Studio and its role in supporting American arts and letters. Beginning as a nicely proportioned…

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