A native New Yorker, Benita Eisler was educated at Smith and Harvard. She has worked as an art editor, reporter, on–camera correspondent, and producer of arts programming for pubic television. Her interest in the varieties of artistic expression is reflected in her teaching and writing: She has taught the nineteenth– and twentiethcentury novel at Princeton and is the author of biographies of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz; Lord Byron, and Frédéric Chopin. She lives in Manhattan.
