Discipline: Literature

Lenore Marshall

Discipline: Literature
MacDowell Fellowships: 1944, 1945
Lenore Marshall (1899-1971) was an American poet, novelist, and activist. In 1933, she became the treasurer of the Writers' League Against Lynching, and corresponded with Theodore Dreiser, who was a member, and who wrote anti-lynching stories. In 1956, with Norman Cousins, she helped found SANE, the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy. She continued her anti-nuclear work with the Committee for Nuclear Responsibility. She corresponded with Irving Howe. The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize is given each year by the Academy of American Poets. The Prize was created in 1975 by the New Hope Foundation of Pennsylvania, which, until 1987, was a philanthropic foundation created by Lenore Marshall and her husband, James Marshall, to "support the arts and the cause of world peace."

Studios

Cheney

Lenore Marshall worked in the Cheney studio.

Cheney Studio was given to MacDowell by Mrs. Benjamin P. Cheney and Mrs. Karl Kauffman. Like Barnard Studio, Cheney is a low, broadly massed bungalow. Sited on a steep westward slope, its porches are supported on wooden posts and fieldstone with lattices. Although it still retains its appealing character, the original design of the shingled building…

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