Discipline: Literature

Lynne Schwartz

Discipline: Literature
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1990
More: www.lynnesharonschwartz.com
Lynne Schwartz is a contemporary American writer. She holds a B.A. (1959) from Barnard College, an M.A. (1961) from Bryn Mawr, and started work on a Ph.D. at NYU. Schwartz has taught in many universities and writing programs, including Bryn Mawr, Columbia, the University of Michigan, Washington University, Rice, and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is currently on faculty in the Writing Seminars M.F.A. program at Bennington College. Schwartz lives in New York City, and has set a number of her books there as well. Though Schwartz is perhaps best known for her novels, her work spans a number of genres, from fiction to poetry to memoir, criticism, and translation from Italian.

Studios

Sprague-Smith

Lynne Schwartz worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.

In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…

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