Yaddo is an artists' community located on a 400-acre (160 ha) estate in Saratoga Springs, New York. Its mission is "to nurture the creative process by...
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The Yaddo Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually during the third week of August at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New...
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Spencer Trask (section Yaddo)
Peabody, and launched the Corporation of Yaddo. This artist community has operated continuously ever since. Yaddo, the name of the estate, is said to have...
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Dorothy Parker (category Yaddo alumni)
Dorothy Parker (née Rothschild; August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet and writer of fiction, plays and screenplays based in New York; she...
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artist-in-residence at leading universities, museums and art colonies, including Yaddo, and The Rockefeller Study Center in Bellagio, Italy. Andres created a series...
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James L. Brooks (category Yaddo alumni)
James Lawrence Brooks (born May 9, 1940) is an American director, producer, screenwriter and co-founder of Gracie Films. He co-created the sitcoms The...
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Patricia Highsmith (category Yaddo alumni)
on the recommendation from Truman Capote, Highsmith was accepted by the Yaddo artist's retreat during the summer of 1948, where she worked on her first...
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MTC/Sloan, Sundance, the Millay Colony for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Edward F. Albee Foundation." Song wrote the screenplay for Past...
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Hannah Arendt (category Yaddo alumni)
Hannah Arendt (/ˈɛərənt, ˈɑːr-/, US also /əˈrɛnt/; German: [ˌhana ˈaːʁənt] ; born Johanna Arendt; 14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) was a German-American...
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David Foster Wallace (category Yaddo alumni)
David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and university professor of English...
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year later in 1922, and is buried at Yaddo. In 1878 she wrote Colorado Leaves, and in 1888 the Chronicles of Yaddo. Her first book, Under King Constantine...
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Philip Roth (category Yaddo alumni)
Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark...
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MacDowell Fellowship (2017) Sundance Institute Women at Sundance Fellow (2017) Yaddo Fellowship (2018) National Board of Review Top 5 Documentaries (2013) National...
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Noir, and 40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology. She has received the Yaddo, Ragdale, and MacDowell fellowships and was a Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose...
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This time he attacked Biyana, Kumarpal king of Bayana was a Rajput of the Yaddo Bhatti sect. Once the attack of Shihabuddin started, the king went to Thankar...
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October 2017. Retrieved 10 July 2017. "Catch a Rare Glimpse Inside Yaddo". Yaddo. Archived from the original on 17 April 2014. Retrieved 16 April 2014...
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David Birkin (category Yaddo alumni)
Whitney Museum of American Art (2012–2013). He was an artist-in-residence at Yaddo in 2013, the MacDowell Colony in 2015, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's...
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1988-1997. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-684-84779-5. "Yaddo Artists' Recent Works". Yaddo.org. Retrieved 2013-04-30. "Archived copy". The New Yorker...
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collective Yaddo, Homes was named as its co-chairwoman with Susan Unterberg in 2013. On this, she stated, "Without Yaddo, I wouldn't exist as a writer. Yaddo gives...
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Langston Hughes (category Yaddo alumni)
James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin,...
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Scholars and Writers, the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, MacDowell, Yaddo, and the Ingmar Bergman Estate. Diaz has published two novels, which have...
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the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She later served as an artist in residence at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY. In Fall 2013, Russell was a distinguished guest...
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guest-host models include MacDowell in Peterborough, New Hampshire and Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, New York. Two primary organizations serving artist...
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James Baldwin (category Yaddo alumni)
James Arthur Baldwin (né Jones; August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an African American writer and civil rights activist who garnered acclaim for his...
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writer's block lifted and, following Martinson's funeral, he traveled to the Yaddo literary retreat to complete the manuscript. The publication of the novel...
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Chloé Zhao (category Yaddo alumni)
Chloé Zhao (born Zhao Ting; 31 March 1982) is a Chinese-born filmmaker. She is known primarily for her work on independent films. Songs My Brothers Taught...
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Recipient, 2013. Alma B.C. Schapiro Artist in Residence, The Corporation of Yaddo, 2015 "Contemporary Female Artists to Be Obsessed With", SHK Magazine, August...
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Jason Reitman (category Yaddo alumni)
Jason R. Reitman ( /ˈraɪtmən/; born October 19, 1977) is a Canadian–American filmmaker. He is best known for directing the films Thank You for Smoking...
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frequent performer there early in his career. Saratoga Springs is home to Yaddo, a 400-acre (1.62 km2; 0.63 sq mi) artists' community, founded by Wall Street...
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Sylvia Plath (category Yaddo alumni)
United States, staying at the Yaddo artist colony in Saratoga Springs, New York, in late 1959. Plath stated that at Yaddo she learned "to be true to my...
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