Discipline: Literature

Peter Tauber

Discipline: Literature
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974
Peter Tauber was born in the Bronx and graduated from Hobart College in 1968. He was a reporter for The Geneva Times in upstate New York and The New York Times, to which he later contributed magazine profiles of Muhammad Ali and Gary Hart, among others, in the 1980's. Subject to the military draft and possible assignment to combat in Vietnam, he enlisted in the United States Army Reserve as an alternative to jail or Canada, and wrote about that experience in The Sunshine Soldiers (Simon & Schuster, 1971), a journal of his eight weeks in basic training with the men of Charlie Company in Fort Bliss, TX.

Studios

Irving Fine

Peter Tauber worked in the Irving Fine studio.

Youngstown Studio was given to MacDowell by friends of Miss Myra McKeown in Youngstown, OH, where she promoted both art and music. It was renamed Irving Fine Studio in 1972 in honor of Irving Fine, a distinguished composer, conductor, and teacher who was a MacDowell Fellow during the 1940s and 1950s. The simple interior of the studio…

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