Discipline: Literature – nonfiction

Maya Jasanoff

Discipline: Literature – nonfiction
Region: Cambridge, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2009, 2015

Maya Jasanoff worked on her new book The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World (Penguin Press) while at MacDowell. This book examines the dynamics of modern globalization through the life and times of the novelist Joseph Conrad and was published in November 2017. Her second book, Liberty's Exiles, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Non-Fiction in 2012.

Studios

Calderwood

Maya Jasanoff worked in the Calderwood studio.

In the winter of 1998, motivated by his passion for reading, Stanford Calderwood donated funds for a new writers’ studio. Burr-McCallum Architects of Williamstown, MA, provided the award-winning design in 1999; and the construction of the handsome studio was completed in time for its first artist to arrive early in 2000. With a series of double-hung casement…

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