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Annalyn Swan (born ca. 1951 in Biloxi, Mississippi) is an American writer and biographer who has written extensively about the arts. With her husband, art critic Mark Stevens she is the author of ''de Kooning: An American Master'' (2004), a biography of Dutch-American artist Willem de Kooning, which was awarded the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.〔http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2005-Biography-or-Autobiography〕 De Kooning also won the National Book Critics Circle prize for biography and the Los Angeles Times biography award, and was named one of the 10 best books of 2005 by the New York Times.〔http://bookcritics.org/awards/past_awards, http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/books/review/tenbest.html〕 In her review in the New York Times, Janet Maslin wrote: "The elusiveness of its subject makes the achievements of de Kooning: An American Master that much more dazzling." 〔"Messy Life and Genius: The Portrait of an Artist," by Janet Maslin, New York Times, Nov. 8, 2004 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/08/books/08masl.html〕 A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Princeton University (Class of 1973), Swan was the first woman editor-in-chief of ''The Daily Princetonian''.〔http://english.princeton.edu/news/new-spring-course-eng-374-life-writing-art-biography〕 She was named a Marshall Scholar〔http://www.marshallscholarship.org/alumni/class-photos/1970s/1973〕 and earned her master's degree at King's College, Cambridge University. She began her writing career at ''Time'', then joined ''Newsweek'' in 1980 as music critic, becoming the magazine's senior arts editor ijn 1983. In 1986-1990 she was editor-in-chief of ''Savvy'',〔(www.savvy.con.in )〕 a magazine for professional women.〔http://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/26/business/advertising-savvy-magazine-to-get-a-new-thrust-in-april.html〕 She later taught at Princeton University, becoming a trustee. Swan has written for numerous publications, including ''The New Republic'' and ''Vanity Fair'',〔http://www.vanityfair.com/contributors/annalyn-swan〕 and is the winner of an ASCP-Deems Taylor Award,〔http://www.ascap.com/eventsawards/awards/deems-taylor/feature/years/1981.aspx〕 and a Front Page Award for her music criticism. She is currently visiting professor at the Leon Levy Biography Center at the Graduate Center, the City University of New York.〔https://english.princeton.edu/news/new-spring-course-eng-374-life-writing-art-biography〕 Swan was named "Biloxian Made Good" in 2011.〔http://www.topix.com/forum/city/north-biloxi-ms/TRNH8LDCCL137AV9L〕 She and Mark Stevens are at work on a biography of the British artist Francis Bacon. They have two children. ==Works== * * 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Annalyn Swan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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