MacDowell Colony - Notable Works

Notable Works

  • DuBose Heyward worked on Porgy, the basis of Porgy & Bess. He met playwright Dorothy Kuhns there; they subsequently married.
  • Thornton Wilder wrote his play Our Town which won a Pulitzer in 1938.
  • Aaron Copland worked on composing Appalachian Spring, a 1945 Pulitzer winner.
  • Virgil Thomson worked on composing Mother of Us All.
  • Leonard Bernstein finished his Mass.
  • Ruth Crawford Seeger worked on composing 5 Songs Set to Poems by Carl Sandburg.
  • Michael Chabon worked on The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Pulitzer Prize)
  • Spalding Gray worked on his novel The Impossible Vacation, and later chronicled his experiences at MacDowell Colony in his extended monologue, Monster in a Box.

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