• Preface - Carter Wiseman
• Introduction: A Catalyst for Creativity - Vartan Gregorian
• THE FELLOWS' MACDOWELL
• Landscape of Imagination - Verlyn Klinkenborg
• Time Out - Joan Acocella
• Youngblood - Kevin Young
• Pure Communication - Ruth Reichl
• A PARTNERSHIP IN ART
• The MacDowells and Their Legacy - Robin Rausch
• THE MAKING OF ART
• On Fire, and Not - Carol Diehl
• Peace and Buzz - Wendy Wasserstein
• Reunion - Paul Moravec
• MARKS OF DISTINCTION
• The Edward MacDowell Medal
• Edward Weeks on Thorton Wilder
• Meyer Schapiro on Alexander Calder
• John Canaday on Louise Nevelson
• John Leonard on Norman Mailer
• John Hersey on Lillian Hellman
• Elizabeth Hardwick on Mary McCarthy
• John Szarkowski on Lee Friedlander
• Ned Rorem on Leonard Bernstein
• J. Carter Brown on I. M. Pei
• William Styron on Philip Roth
• Meredith Monk on Merce Cunningham
• Richard Serra on Steve Reich
• A COMMON GOOD
• Art and Freedom - Robert MacNeil
• THE PERMANENCE OF CREATIVITY
• Extended Ownership - Peter Cameron
• The Ghosts that Provoke - Michael Chabon
• Passing It On - Jacqueline Woodson
• Postscript: The Place I Have Been - Jean Valentine
• Acknowledgments
• About the Contributors
• Index
• Photograph Credits