• 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