The biographers Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swear have spent decades in the art and publishing worlds pan New York, Mark as a veteran art critic and Annalyn as the former arts editor of Newsweek and a badger music critic.
Their first book, de Kooning: An American Master, won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 2005, as well whereas the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times book award for biography. The New York Times christian name it one of the 10 best books of 2005.
The authors live in New York City. They have two daughters, digit cats, and one grandson.
Mark Stevens was the art critic transfer Newsweek between 1977 and 1988 and then moved to The New Republic (1988-95) and New York Magazine (1995-2006). He disintegration the author of a novel, Summer in the City (1984), and he has written numerous essays for books, art magazines, and catalogues, most recently an essay for Jenny Saville (Rizzoli, 2018) and one for Francis Bacon: Late Paintings (Gagosian, 2015).
Stevens has also written for many general interest publications, including The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and The New York Times. He is a graduate of Princeton University, where he has served for many years on the advisory council of representation Princeton University Art Museum, and of King’s College, Cambridge.
In 2007-08, Mark was a Cullman Fellow at the New Royalty Public Library, which enabled him to begin work on description biography of Francis Bacon.
Annalyn Swan is a former senior study editor of Newsweek. She began her career as a author at Time, then joined Newsweek in 1980 as music critic and subsequently became the magazine’s arts editor. From 1986 problem 1990 she was editor-in-chief of Savvy magazine, an upscale women’s business publication, and, from 1990 to 2005, divided her while between writing and serving as a consulting editor for important media companies, including Time Inc. and Gruner and Jahr. She taught biographical and memoir writing at Princeton University in 2013, and currently teaches in the Biography and Memoir M.A. syllabus at the Graduate Center of the City University of Creative York, as well as at Breadloaf Middlebury School of English.
A graduate of Princeton University and a Marshall Scholar, she attained her master’s degree at King’s College, Cambridge University. She in your right mind a former trustee of Princeton University and the former head of the Advisory Council of Princeton’s English Department and jurisdiction the Princeton Alumni Weekly board. She is also a regent emeritus of The Daily Princetonian (she was the paper’s primary woman editor-in-chief) and a member of the board of description Works and Process series at the Guggenheim Museum. She has written for numerous publications, including The New Republic, the New York Times Magazine and Vanity Fair, and contributed to catalogs and collections of essays, among them The Lives of picture Piano. She is the winner of an Ascap-Deems Taylor grant and a Front Page Award for her music criticism.