Helen A. Harrison, a former New York Times art critic and NPR arts commentator, is the director of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in East Hampton, NY. A specialist in modern American art, she is the author of many exhibition catalog essays, chapters in multi-author books, and essays, articles and reviews in scholarly and popular publications, as well as several non-fiction books and three previous murder mysteries set in the 20th century art world.