Cathy Curtis is a former Los Angeles Times staff writer and past president of Biographers International Organization. A graduate of Smith College with a master's degree in art history from the University of California, Berkeley, she is also the author of Restless Ambition: Grace Hartigan, Painter; Alive Still: Nell Blaine, American Painter; and A Generous Vision: The Creative Life of Elaine de Kooning. She lives in California.
