Perri Knize worked on a memoir. Her first book, Grand Obsession: A Piano Odyssey (Scribner), was on The Washington Post's "Best of 2008" list and was named an "Editor's Choice" by The New York Times Book Review.
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
Perri Knize
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
Region: Helena, MT
MacDowell Fellowships: 2010
More:
www.grandobsession.com
Studios
Veltin
Perri Knize worked in the Veltin studio.
Veltin Studio was donated by alumni of the Veltin School, a school for girls in New York with a highly respected visual arts department. As the plaque just outside the entrance attests, this studio was used by poet Edwin Arlington Robinson during most of the 24 summers he spent at MacDowell. Perhaps most famously, Thornton Wilder put the finishing…