Annalyn Swan has been a writer at Time and an award-winning music critic and senior arts editor at Newsweek. She has written for The New Republic, The Atlantic Monthly, and New York magazine. She lives in New York City. Swan and her husband, Mark Stevens spent over a decade producing de Kooning: An American Master, in time for the abstract expressionist's centenary. Art critic David Cohen offered nothing but praise for the work: "Copiously researched and deftly crafted into a 600+ page turner, it is not only a powerful, convincing portrait of an extraordinary individual but an insightful analysis of the twentieth century American art world. The intelligently paced descriptions of art are lush and perceptive, and while focused on the life story are rarely egregious in their biographical determinism."
