Discipline: Literature – nonfiction

Lawrence Millman

Discipline: Literature – nonfiction
Region: Cambridge, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1982

Lawrence Millman (b.1948) is an adventure travel writer and mycologist. He is the author of 17 books, including Our Like Will Not Be There Again, Northern Latitudes, Last Places, An Evening Among Headhunters, A Kayak Full of Ghosts, Lost in the Arctic, Fascinating Fungi of New England, and At the End of the World: A True Story of Murder in the Arctic. His work has also appeared in Smithsonian, National Geographic Adventure, the Atlantic Monthly, Sports Illustrated, and Islands. He has won numerous awards, including a Northern Lights Award, a Lowell Thomas Award, an award for the best article on Canada in a U.K. publication (1996), and a Pacific- Asia Gold Travel Award; he has been anthologized in the Best American Travel Writing (Houghton Mifflin) three years in a row. Millman holds a Ph.D. in literature from Rutgers University. A fellow of the prestigious Explorers Club, he has made more than 40 trips to the Arctic and Subarctic. He has discovered a previously unknown lake in Borneo, and there is a mountain named after him outside Tasiilaq in eastern Greenland.

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Sorosis

Lawrence Millman worked in the Sorosis studio.

Sorosis Studio was funded by the New York Carol Club of Sorosis. The small, masonry studio was designed by F. Winsor, Jr., the architect who also designed Savidge Library (1926) and Mixter Studio (1927). At the time of construction, the large porch on the southeast façade offered a spectacular mountain view that has since been obscured…

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