A Place for the Arts: The MacDowell Colony, 1907-2007 Book

Preface   Carter Wiseman     10
Introduction
A Catalyst for Creativity   Vartan Gregorian     16
The Fellows' MacDowell
Landscape of the Imagination   Verlyn Klinkenborg     24
Time Out   Joan Acocella     30
Youngblood   Kevin Young     36
Pure Communion   Ruth Reichl     43
A Partnership in Art
The MacDowells and Their Legacy   Robin Rausch     50
The Making of Art
On Fire, and Not   Carol Diehl     136
Peace and Buzz   Wendy Wasserstein     144
Reunion   Paul Moravec     152
Marks of Distinction
The Edward MacDowell Medal     160
Edward Weeks on Thornton Wilder
Meyer Schapiro on Alexander Calder
John Canaday on Louise Nevelson
John Leonard on Norman Mailer
John Hersey on Lillian Hellman
Elizabeth Hardwick on Mary McCarthy
John Szarkowski on Lee Friedlander
Ned Rorem on Leonard Bernstein
J. Carter Brown on I. M. Pei
William Styron on Philip Roth
Meredith Monk on Merce Cunningham
Richard Serra on Steve Reich
A Common Good
Art and Freedom   Robert MacNeil     178
The Permanence of Creativity
Extended Ownership   Peter Cameron     204
The Ghosts That Provoke   Michael Chabon     210
Passing It On   Jacqueline Woodson     216
Postscript: The Place I Have Been   Jean Valentine     223
Acknowledgments     224
About the Contributors     226
Index     228
Photograph Credits     239