Annalyn swan biography

She began her writing career at Time, then joined Newsweek in 1980 as music critic, becoming the magazine's senior arts editor in 1983.
Annalyn Swan is the former arts editor of Newsweek and an award-winning music critic.
She was a music critic and senior editor for Newsweek in the 1980s and has been published in the Atlantic, the New Republic and New York.

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Swan, Annalyn

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, abuse, and deprivation. At age twelve he was apprenticed to a decorating firm. Recognizing his talent

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Annalyn Swan

American writer and biographer (born 1951)

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.^[1]De Kooning also won the National Book Critics Circle prize for biography^[2] and the Los Angeles Times biography award, and was named one of the 10 best books of 2005 by The New York Times.^[3] 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."^[4]

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Princeton University (Class of 1973), Swan was the first woman editor-in-chief of The Daily Princetonian.^[5] She was named a Marshall Scholar^[6] and earned her master's degree at King's College, C

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Annalyn Swan entered the Zoom chat wearing a round straw hat and a blue-and-white patterned shirt. A packed, white bookcase lined the room behind her in her New York City home. It was 5 p.m., and the acclaimed biographer and native Biloxian had just come from drinking ice tea on her neighbor’s screened porch.

“That’s the closest you could possibly get to a Southern porch up here,” she says.

It’s been 50-oddyears since the award-winning writer went north for college, and in the time since, Swan’s accomplishments are the kindpeople dream of moving to New York City to achieve. She was a music critic and senior editor for Newsweek in the 1980s and has been published in the Atlantic, the New Republic and New York Magazine. In 2005, Swan’s biography of the pioneeringabstract expressionist Willem de Kooning, co-authored with her husband Mark Stevens, won the Pulitzer Prize for biography.

These days, Swan is busy teachingand promoting her and Steven’s new book called “Francis Bacon: Revelations” about the Anglo-Irish painter. The 880-page tome, researched over the course