Mary Ann Caws
Author
1933 –
Who is Mary Ann Caws?
Mary Ann Caws is an American author, art historian and literary critic.
She is currently Distinguished Professor of English, French and Comparative Literature at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. She is an expert on Surrealism and modern English and French literature, having written biographies of Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Henry James. She works on the interrelations of visual art and literary texts, has written biographies of Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí, edited the diaries, letters, and source material of Joseph Cornell. She has also written on André Breton, Robert Desnos, René Char, Yves Bonnefoy, Robert Motherwell, and Edmond Jabès. She served as the senior editor for the HarperCollins World Reader, and edited anthologies including Manifesto: A Century of Isms, Surrealism, Twentieth-Century French Literature. Among others, she has translated Stéphane Mallarmé, Tristan Tzara, Pierre Reverdy, André Breton, Paul Éluard, Robert Desnos, and René Char.
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- Born
- Sep 10, 1933
Wilmington - Also known as
- Mary Caws
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts, Bryn Mawr College
( - 1954) - PhD, University of Kansas
( - 1962) - Master of Arts, Yale University
( - 1956)
- Bachelor of Arts, Bryn Mawr College
- Lived in
- New York City
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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