Discipline: Literature – nonfiction

Phoebe Hoban

Discipline: Literature – nonfiction
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2003
More: www.phoebehoban.com
Phoebe Hoban is a New York-based journalist. She began her journalistic career at Newsweek International, writing about new technology. In 1984, she began writing a technology column for New York Magazine. In 1985, she began writing investigative articles about cultural controversies at New York magazine. Among her signature pieces were “The Salinger File,” an in-depth piece about J.D. Salinger on the occasion of the lawsuit he brought against his then-biographer, Ian Hamilton; “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Woody Allen But Were Afraid to Ask,” about the filmmaker’s notorious breakup with Mia Farrow and subsequent union with Soon-Yi Previn; “Battlemania,”about opera star Kathleen Battle’s departure from the Metropolitan Opera; and “Psycho Drama,” about Bret Easton Ellis’ book, “American Psycho," being cancelled by Simon and Schuster and snapped up by Knopf.

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Phoebe Hoban worked in the MacDowell studio.

Built in 1912, Pine Studio was renamed MacDowell Studio in 1943 in recognition of support from a group of Edward MacDowell’s music students. It was built as a composers’ studio and the stuccoed walls were intended to be soundproof. Like many of the studios on property, MacDowell was winterized in the 1950s when the program began welcoming…

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