Rachel Slade is the author of Making It in America and Into the Raging Sea, a New York Times Notable Book and bestseller. Her essays and long-form pieces have appeared in The New York Times, the NYT Book Review, the Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, Esquire, Yankee, and Down East. She was awarded the Mountbatten Award and the Maine Literary Award for nonfiction.
While at MacDowell, she wrote the first draft of a novel, a work of historical fiction that imagines the final years of the last woolly mammoths.
Portrait by Craig La Court
Studios
Irving Fine
Rachel Slade 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…
