Discipline: Literature

Sylvia Tennenbaum

Discipline: Literature
Region: Wynnewood, PA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1979
Sylvia Tennenbaum (1928-2016) was known for the novels Rachel, the Rabbi’s Wife and Yesterday’s Streets as well as short stories. Tennenbaum received the Goethe Medal of the Hessian Ministry for Science and Art in 2012 after Yesterday’s Streets was published in German. At the age of 84, she went on a book tour throughout the country that had been her childhood home. She went to Barnard College, where she studied art history and she adopted a bohemian lifestyle. For a time she was romantically involved with Anton Rosenberg, a young painter and Beat personality who eventually figured in Jack Kerouac’s The Subterraneans, and later in her own first novel.

Studios

Garland

Sylvia Tennenbaum worked in the Garland studio.

Marian MacDowell and friends originally named this studio in memory of Anna Baetz, the nurse who helped care for Edward MacDowell in the waning years of his life. With generous support from the Garland family, the studio was renovated in 2013 and renamed the Peter and Mary Garland Studio. The inward opening, diamond-pane windows were replaced…

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