Kathrin Perutz (1939-2018) wrote fiction, and published her last two novels under her pseudonym Johanna Kingsley. Perutz was in residence in 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1975, 1977, 1981, 1982-1983, and 1995. She received her B.A. from Barnard College and an M.A. from New York University, selling her first novel, The Garden, when she was 21 and living and writing in London between undergraduate and graduate studies. After writing three more novels, mostly around the theme of the beauty culture, Perutz branched out into nonfiction, writing studies about marriage, fashion, and co-wrote a couple of books with Polly Bergen before returning to fiction. She then wrote two New York Times bestsellers, Scents and then Faces as Johanna Kingsley.
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Kathrin Perutz
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1975, 1977, 1981, 1983, 1995
Studios
Banks
Kathrin Perutz worked in the Banks studio.
Banks, an ell on the north end of the Lodge dormitory, was first used as an artist’s studio in 1970. Since then, it has played host to an extraordinary list of writers working in several disciplines. In all seasons, Fellows have enjoyed the pastoral view through the French doors facing a field…