navWallace Fellows
Lila Wallace Reader’s Digest Fund Fellowships are for creative and performing artists and writers.
| Residence | Fellowship | Year | Project | |||
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| Marilyn Arsem |
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performance artist | Boston, MA | Wallace | 1997 | Spirit Messages: A performance based on 19th century Spiritualism, as well as late 19th century daily life in New England |
| Robert Begiebing |
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writer | Manchester, NH | Wallace | 1996 | The Adventures of Allegra Fullerton Or, A Memoir of Startling and Amusing Episodes from Itinerant Life |
| Laurie Block |
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filmmaker | Conway, MA | Wallace | 1995 | Television documentary on the Mexican War |
| Christopher Cokinos |
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creative writer | Manhattan, KS | Wallace | 1998 | Hope is the Thing With Feathers |
| Nicole Cooley |
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poet | New York, NY | Wallace | 1999 | The Afflicted Girls: A book of poetry about the Salem witch trials |
| Nancy Vieira Couto | poet | Ithaca, NY | Wallace | 1995 | Book of poems and prose pieces on America Vesspucci | |
| Deborah DeFord | writer | Branford, CT | Wallace | 1996 | Young adult novel about the female American Revolutionary soldier Deborah Sampson Gannett | |
| Thomas Dunn | playwright | Henniker, NH | Wallace | 1998 | Research for a play about Winslow Homer and his early career,1856-1875 | |
| Catherine Gammon |
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writer | Pittsburgh, PA | Wallace | 1996 | Nightbirds in an Age of Light: A novel about the Salem witchcraft trials |
| Jeffrey Hatcher |
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playwright | Minneapolis, MN | Wallace | 1995 | Sockdology: A play about the actors in the play Our American Cousin |
| Pamela Keech | visual artist and independent curator | New York, NY | Wallace | 1997 | Nurseries: An installation picturing the lives of children in post Civil War America | |
| John Lee | playwright | Los Angeles, CA | Wallace | 1996 | Orphan Trains | |
| Jeanne Mackin | novelist | Ithaca, NY | Wallace | 1999 | The Sweet By and By: Maggie and Katie Fox | |
| Sarah Messer | non-fiction writer, poet | Madison, WI | Wallace | 1999 | Red House: A non-fiction memoir that explores America’s fascination with history, family, and Great Houses | |
| Cornelia Nixon | novelist | Bloomington, IN | Wallace | 1998 | Jarrettsville: The true story of Martha Jane Carines, a Maryland woman who killed her fiancé in 1869 and was acquitted | |
| Stephen O'Connor | non-fiction writer | New York, NY | Wallace | 1997 | Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed | |
| Yuri Rasovsky |
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radio documentary producer | Glendale, CA | Wallace | 1995 | Radio documentary on the history of Thanksgiving |
| Cassandra Fay Smith |
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Historian, Miniaturist, Writer | Detroit, MI | Wallace | 1999 | Slaves, free blacks, runaways: dolls of the antebellum United States |
| Christina Tree | non-fiction writer | Cambridge, MA | Wallace | 1995 | History of New England Tourism | |
| Barbara Weisberg | writer and producer | New York, NY | Wallace | 1998 | Talking to the Dead: A non-fiction children's book about Kate and Maggie Fox | |
| Aubrey Wertheim | playwright | Oberlin, OH | Wallace | 1996 | A full length one woman show about Fanny Fern, the first female American columnist | |
| Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon |
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Performance poet | Philadelphia, PA | Wallace | 1996 | Life and Times of Lucy Terry |
| Andrea Woods | dancer, choreographer | Brooklyn, NY | Wallace | 1996 | Ballad of the Black Cowboy |
