Myra McLarey grew up in southwest Arkansas listening to porch stories in the community where she was raised. Years later, while doing course work on a doctorate in history, she conducted research in African-American history, concentrating, particularly, on Southwest Arkansas. An award winning teacher, she has taught in public high schools, in a private high school, in community colleges, in two M.F.A. programs (Emerson and UNH), at Vanderbilt's Owen School of Finance, and at Harvard University. She currently lives in Nashville, TN, where she has discovered how hard it is to write a good country song.
Discipline:
Literature
Myra McLarey
Discipline:
Literature
Region: Arlington, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1993, 1995
Studios
Sprague-Smith
Myra McLarey 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…