Discipline: Literature – fiction

Richard Grayson

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: ARIZONA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1980, 1987

Richard Grayson is the author of several books of short stories, including With Hitler in New York (1979), Lincoln's Doctor's Dog (1982), I Brake for Delmore Schwartz (1983), I Survived Caracas Traffic (1996), The Silicon Valley Diet (2000), Highly Irregular Stories (2006), and And To Think That He Kissed Him on Lorimer Street (2006). The recipient of three Individual Artist Fellowships in Literature from the Florida Arts Council and a New York State Council on the Arts Writer-in-Residence Award, he has also published nonfiction in The New York Times, The San Jose Mercury News, The Orlando Sentinel, The Arizona Republic, and his diary entries going back to 1969 on the websites of Thought Catalog and McSweeney's.

Studios

Wood

Richard Grayson worked in the Wood studio.

Wood Studio, given to the residency program by Mrs. Frederick Trevor Hill, was completed in 1913 in memory of Mrs. Hill’s mother, Helen Ogden Wood. Like Schelling Studio, the building is sided with large, overlapping pieces of hemlock bark. When the studio was renovated in 1995, MacDowell staff researched the origins of this unusual building material and…

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