Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson

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Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson is an American journalist and author best known for her writing on subjects related to architecture, design, culture, and the built environment.

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Early years and education

Elizabeth A. Evitts born in Roanoke, Virginia. She grew up in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. [1]

Dickinson attended Towson High School in Baltimore and then spent two years at Randolph-Macon College in Virginia followed by a year studying in Paris through a program at the Sorbonne. She transferred to SUNY Buffalo, where she graduated with a B.A. in French literature, in 1995.[ citation needed ]

Career

From 2004 to 2007, she worked as an editor at Urbanite magazine, after which she switched to the Architect Magazine. [2]

Her 2018 article on the fashion designer Claire McCardell, "A Dress for Everyone," led Dickinson to propose a book on McCardell, titled Unhemmed, contracted to Simon & Schuster in March 2023. [3]

Dickinson has taught graduate-level writing and journalism at Johns Hopkins University (since 2018) and Maryland Institute College of Art (2009–2016).[ citation needed ]

Awards and recognition

Her writing has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize 3 times (2013, [2] 2016, 2017) and has won multiple awards, grants, and fellowships including the following:

Selected publications

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