Visiting professor, Leon Levy Center for Biography. Affiliated with the M.A. Program in Biography and Memoir

Former writer at Time and music critic and editor at Newsweek. Author, with Mark Stevens, of de Kooning: An American Master, which won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for biography. Her biography Francis Bacon: Revelations, co-authored with Mark Stevens, was published in 2021 and named The Times art book of the year.