Discipline: Literature – fiction

Patrick Somerville

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Los Angeles, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2010

Patrick Somerville worked on his second novel, This Bright River. He is the winner of the Chicago Public Library's 21st Century Award and his first novel, The Cradle, was a finalist for The Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize.

Studios

New Jersey

Patrick Somerville worked in the New Jersey studio.

The yellow clapboard New Jersey Studio, located on a grassy, sloping site, was funded by the New Jersey Federation of Women’s Clubs and built as an exact replica of Monday Music Studio (1913). The studio’s porch rests on fieldstone piers that increase in height as the ground slopes to the west. Like Monday Music Studio, New Jersey…

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