Discipline: Literature

John Brooks

Discipline: Literature
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1969
John Brooks (1920–1993) was a writer and longtime contributor to The New Yorker magazine, where he worked for many years as a staff writer, specializing in financial topics. Brooks was also the author of several books, both fiction and non-fiction, the best known of which was an examination of the financial shenanigans of the 1960s Wall Street bull market. A native of New Yorker who was educated at Princeton, he served as president of the Authors Guild from 1975 to 1979. Brooks' well-received novels included The Big Wheel in 1949, A Pride of Lions in 1954, and The Man Who Broke Things in 1958. He was most highly regarded for the 10 nonfiction books he wrote between 1958 and 1981 on the foibles of the stock market and American business. Among his awards were the John Hancock Award in 1973 for the book The Go-Go Years, and the Loeb Magazine Award in 1964 and 1968 for New Yorker articles. Before he began writing for The New Yorker in 1949, he had been a contributing editor to Time magazine.

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Garland

John Brooks worked in the Garland studio.

Marian MacDowell and friends originally named this studio in memory of Anna Baetz, the nurse who helped care for Edward MacDowell in the waning years of his life. With generous support from the Garland family, the studio was renovated in 2013 and renamed the Peter and Mary Garland Studio. The inward opening, diamond-pane windows were replaced…

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