Hard White: A New Novel by Melanie Dugan

Hard White by Melanie Dugan

Hard White tells the story of Alice Neel, a ground-breaking visual artist, who revolutionized the art of the portrait. Born in 1900, she lived a tumultuous life spanning World War I, the 1918 flu epidemic, women getting the vote, the Great Depression, World War II, McCarthyism, the Civil Rights Era, and second-wave feminism. For decades she worked in obscurity, wrestling with depression, poverty, and misogyny, loving the wrong men, fighting to live on her own terms, and above all, to paint.

Melanie Dugan is the author of four previous novels. Her writing has been called “stunning,” “gorgeous,” and “complex,” and described as “buzzing with intelligence and a deep understanding of human nature.” She studied art and worked and showed as a visual artist in Toronto before settling in Kingston, Ontario.

Hard White
$23.95
Woodpecker Lane Press, woodpeckerlanepress@gmail.com
ISBN: 978-1-990612-09-1

Contact
Website: www.melaniecdugan.com
Email: 2maynarddugan@gmail.com