Jean Strouse is the author of Morgan: American Financier, Alice James: A Biography, which won the Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy, and Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimeres. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Architectural Digest, and Newsweek. Strouse has been a Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation and served as the Sue Ann and John Weinberg Director of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library from 2003 to 2017. She lives in New York City.
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