Discipline: Literature

Sharon Mathis

Discipline: Literature
Region: Oxon Hill, MD
MacDowell Fellowships: 1978
Sharon Mathis is an American librarian and author who has written books mainly for children and young adults. She earned a degree in sociology from Morgan State College and, in 1975, went on to earn a master's in library science from the Catholic University of America. Her book Ray Charles, a biography, received the Coretta Scott King Award. The Hundred Penny Box received a Newbery Honor Award and is a recipient of the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award and also an American Library Association Notable Children's Book. English Journal placed Mathis alongside writers such as Toni Cade Bambara and Nikki Giovanni. Teacup Full of Roses was a New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year.

Studios

Wood

Sharon Mathis 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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