Discipline: Literature – nonfiction

Matt Wray

Discipline: Literature – nonfiction
Region: Philadelphia, PA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2012

Matt Wray is a sociologist who worked on a book about suicide and self-destruction in Las Vegas. In his earlier work, he focused on the history of stigmatypes of poor rural whites. He grew up not far from Peterborough, NH.

Studios

Sprague-Smith

Matt Wray 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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