Discipline: Literature – fiction, Literature – poetry

Paula McLain

Discipline: Literature – fiction, Literature – poetry
Region: Cleveland, OH
MacDowell Fellowships: 1997, 2001, 2014
More: www.randomhouse.com/rhpg/features/paula_mclain
Paula McLain worked on her sixth book, Circling The Sun, a historical novel set in colonial Kenya. Her second novel, The Paris Wife, spent a year and a half on The New York Times Best Seller list and is published in thirty-four languages.

Studios

Monday Music

Paula McLain worked in the Monday Music studio.

Given to the residency by the Monday Music Club of Orange, NJ, Monday Music Studio is sited next to an enormous boulder deposited by glaciers thousands of years ago. A small dormer once pierced the east slope of the roof, but after damage suffered in the 1938 hurricane, the roof was rebuilt without the dormer. The interior…

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