Cathy Curtis

Cathy Curtis is the author of two previous biographies, Restless Ambition: Grace Hartigan, Painter, and A Generous Vision: The Creative Life of Elaine de Kooning. An alumna of Smith College and the University of California, Berkeley, she was formerly a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times. In 2018, Curtis was elected to a two-year term as president of Biographers International Organization (BIO).

How Elizabeth Hardwick Spent Her “Starving Artist” Years in the Big City

Cathy Curtis on the Author of Sleepless Nights Leaving School

November 16, 2021 By Cathy Curtis

Inventing the Village: The Life and Times of the Jane Street Artists

On Nell Blaine and the Young Abstract Painters of Downtown New York

August 5, 2019 By Cathy Curtis

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