Discipline: Literature

Lachlan MacDonald

Discipline: Literature
MacDowell Fellowships: 1956
Lachlan MacDonald (1929-2012) was an American reporter. While working on his master’s degree at the University of Chicago, he worked as an editor at The Chicago Review. His published poems and short stories include "The Hunter," published in The Best American Short Stories (1960). In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Lachlan taught at Webb School, a boarding school in Claremont, California, and edited Coastlines, a West Coast literary magazine. He later worked at Cal Poly, from which he retired in 1979 as the director of public affairs. After he retired, he and his wife, Karen Reinecke, created and ran Padre Productions, a publishing company specializing in Central Coast guidebooks.

Studios

Irving Fine

Lachlan MacDonald worked in the Irving Fine studio.

Youngstown Studio was given to MacDowell by friends of Miss Myra McKeown in Youngstown, OH, where she promoted both art and music. It was renamed Irving Fine Studio in 1972 in honor of Irving Fine, a distinguished composer, conductor, and teacher who was a MacDowell Fellow during the 1940s and 1950s. The simple interior of the studio…

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