Author Raul Correa was educated at Columbia University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree and master’s of fine arts. He joined the U.S. Army at the age of eighteen as a peacetime paratrooper, an experience that strongly influenced his writing career. Correa’s novel, I Don’t Know but I’ve Been Told (2002), is about a group of paratroopers stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina in the 1980s. The novel was praised by publications such as The New York Times Book Review, Booklist, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal. Correa was an artist-in-residence at Yaddo, and MacDowell.
Discipline:
Literature
Raul Correa
Discipline:
Literature
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1997
Studios
Barnard
Raul Correa worked in the Barnard studio.
Originally built near MacDowell's Union Street entrance, the Barnard Studio — which was funded by Barnard College music students — was re-located to its current site in 1910. When the small structure was moved, its size was doubled with the addition of a second room. This remodeling, financed by Mrs. Thomas E. Emery of Cincinnati…