Annalyn swan biography examples

PERSONAL: Female. Education:Princeton University, received degree, 1973.

ADDRESSES: Agent—c/o Author Mail, Alfred A. Knopf, 1745 Broadway, New York, NY 10019.

CAREER: Staff writer for Time magazine; music critic and senior arts editor for Newsweek.

AWARDS, HONORS: Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and National Book Critics Circle Award, both 2004, and Pulitzer Prize, 2005, all for De Kooning: An American Master.

WRITINGS:

(With Mark Stevens) De Kooning: An American Master, A.

A. Knopf (New York, NY), 2004.

Contributor to periodicals, including New Republic, Atlantic Monthly, and New York.

SIDELIGHTS: Journalist and music critic Annalyn Swan turned to the field of biography, along with coauthor Mark Stevens, in the Pulitzer Prize-winning De Kooning: An American Master, an in-depth look at Dutch-born abstract-expressionist painter Willem de Kooning.

Born in 1904 in the Netherlands, de Kooning experienced a difficult early life of poverty, a