Discipline: Literature – nonfiction

Mary Johnson

Discipline: Literature – nonfiction
Region: Nashua, NH
MacDowell Fellowships: 2008

Mary Johnson worked on a memoir about her 20 years as a nun in the group founded by Mother Teresa of Calcutta. Titled An Unquenchable Thirst: One Woman’s Extraordinary Journey of Faith, Hope, and Clarity, the book is scheduled to be released by Spiegel & Grau, a division of Random House, in 2009

Studios

Sprague-Smith

Mary Johnson 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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