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Roxana Robinson ’64 Leads Writers’ Workshop in Key West Robinson has received Fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the MacDowell Colony. She is a critically acclaimed fiction writer, author of three novels – Summer Light, This is My Daughter, and Sweetwater – three collections of short stories - A Glimpse of Scarlet, Asking for Love, and A Perfect Stranger, as well as the biography of Georgia O'Keeffe. Her work has been compared to John Cheever’s by The New York Times, and to Edith Wharton’s by Time Magazine. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, The Atlantic, and other magazines. It has appeared often in Best American Short Stories, and has been widely anthologized and broadcast on National Public Radio. Four of her works have been chosen Notable Books of the Year by The New York Times, and she was named a Literary Lion by The New York Public Library. Look for a piece by Robinson in the Spring 2007 issue of The Shipley Bulletin. Get more information about Roxana Robinson and her work from her Website.
In March, 2007, award-winning author Roxanna Robinson ’64 offered a five-day writing workshop at The Studios of Key West, a new art community in Florida. The intensive five-day workshop focused on reading, writing, and assessing one’s own work.
Posted Monday, April 09, 2007
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