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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 1988-1997. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-684-84779-5. "Yaddo Artists' Recent Works". Yaddo.org. Retrieved 2013-04-30. "Jonathan Aaron, Emerson College"...
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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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    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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    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 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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    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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    Patricia Highsmith (category Yaddo alumni)
    Tales, Dies at 74". The New York Times. Retrieved April 7, 2016. "Yaddo Shadow" (PDF). Yaddo. Spring 2004. pp. 14–17. Retrieved March 13, 2016.[permanent dead...
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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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    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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    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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    Flannery O'Connor (category Yaddo alumni)
    During the summer of 1948, O'Connor continued to work on Wise Blood at Yaddo, an artists' community in Saratoga Springs, New York, where she also completed...
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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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    Aaron Copland (category Yaddo alumni)
    Aaron Copland (/ˈkoʊplənd/, KOHP-lənd; November 14, 1900 – December 2, 1990) was an American composer, critic, writer, teacher, pianist and later a conductor...
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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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    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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    Miranda July (category Yaddo alumni)
    Miranda July (born Miranda Jennifer Grossinger; February 15, 1974) is an American film director, screenwriter, actress and author. Her body of work includes...
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    Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and Yaddo. Among the many journals, periodicals and other outlets in which Griffiths...
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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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