Writer in Residence

After a contractor encouraged her to paint everything white, she went in the opposite direction. Almost every room is wrapped in color. Her bedroom, which is the peach of a starlet’s lingerie, is furnished with her great-aunt’s dressing table, an iron bed from the 1800s, and a painted bureau. The tiles on the fireplace in Maureen's bedroom, like many pieces in her home, are souvenirs—in this case, from a trip to Tuscany.