Discipline: Literature

Martha McPhee

Discipline: Literature
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1992
Martha McPhee is an American novelist who received a National Endowment for the Arts grant to complete her first novel, Bright Angel Time, which was published in 1997 and was a New York Times Notable Book. Her second novel, Gorgeous Lies, a follow-up to Bright Angel Time, was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2002. Her third novel, L'America, was published in 2006. Her fourth novel, Dear Money, set during the recent financial crisis, was published in 2010. Her work has appeared in several journals including The New Yorker and Harper's Bazaar. She currently lives in New York City, where she teaches at Hofstra University. She has two children, Livia and Jasper Svendold McPhee.

Studios

Irving Fine

Martha McPhee 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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