Discipline: Literature – nonfiction

Wyatt Mason

Discipline: Literature – nonfiction
Region: Germantown, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2006, 2011

Wyatt Mason worked on a book while in residence. He is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, a Writer in Residence at Bard College, a senior fellow of Bard's Hannah Arendt Center, and a professor in the Bard Prison Initiative.

Portrait by Hannah Tennant-Moore

Studios

MacDowell

Wyatt Mason worked in the MacDowell studio.

Built in 1912, Pine Studio was renamed MacDowell Studio in 1943 in recognition of support from a group of Edward MacDowell’s music students. It was built as a composers’ studio and the stuccoed walls were intended to be soundproof. Like many of the studios on property, MacDowell was winterized in the 1950s when the program began welcoming…

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