Sylvia Alderyn Brownrigg is an American author of several acclaimed works of fiction: four novels, including Pages for You and The Delivery Room; a collection of short stories Ten Women Who Shook the World; and a book for middle-grade readers, Kepler’s Dream, now being turned into a feature film. Sylvia’s works have been included in The New York Times and Los Angeles Times lists of notable fiction and have been translated into several languages, and she has won a Lambda award for fiction. Her short stories have appeared in Zoetrope: All Story, Frieze, as well as several anthologies. “The Lady in the Desert” was read on BBC Radio 4 and “Amazon” was one of NPR’s Selected Shorts. In addition to writing fiction, Sylvia Brownrigg has taught at the American University in Paris and been widely published as a reviewer and critic. She received a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Yale University and a master’s in writing from Johns Hopkins.
Sylvia Brownrigg
Studios
Wood
Sylvia Brownrigg 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…