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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“Men seem anxious to accomplish an orderly retreat through the centuries, earnestly rebuilding the works behind them, as they are battered down by the encroachments of time; but while they loiter, they and their works both fall prey to the arch enemy.”
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