Paule Marshall (1929 - 2019) was an American author, best known for her 1959 novel, Brown Girl, Brownstones. In 1992, Marshall was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. Marshall taught at Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of California Berkeley, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and Yale University before holding the Helen Gould Sheppard Chair of Literature and Culture at New York University. In 1993 she received an honorary L.H.D. from Bates College. She was a winner of the Dos Passos Prize for Literature and was designated as a Literary Lion by the New York Public Library in 1994. Marshall was inducted into the Celebrity Path at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in 2001. Her memoir, Triangular Road, was published in 2009. In 2010, Marshall won a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
Paule Marshall
Studios
Mixter
Paule Marshall worked in the Mixter studio.
Built in 1927–1930, the Florence Kilpatrick Mixter Studio was funded by its namesake and designed by the architect F. Winsor, Jr., who also designed MacDowell's original Savidge Library in 1925. Mixter Studio, solidly built of yellow and grey-hued granite, once had sweeping views of Pack Monadnock to the east. The lush forest has now grown…