Samuel Leader was born in South Africa, grew up in the United Kingdom and France, and has lived in the United States since 2001. He holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and modern languages from the University of Oxford and an M.F.A. in fiction from UC Irvine. For his writing he was twice awarded a fiction fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, was a writer in residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and a fellow at the Dora Maar house in 2014. He teaches in the literary arts department at RISD. He worked on a novel about an old man on trial for crimes against humanity.
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Samuel Leader
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Region: Colchester, UK
MacDowell Fellowships: 2014
Studios
Veltin
Samuel Leader worked in the Veltin studio.
Veltin Studio was donated by alumni of the Veltin School, a school for girls in New York with a highly respected visual arts department. As the plaque just outside the entrance attests, this studio was used by poet Edwin Arlington Robinson during most of the 24 summers he spent at MacDowell. Perhaps most famously, Thornton Wilder put the finishing…