Annalyn Swan (born ca. 1951 inBiloxi, Mississippi) is an American writer and biographer who has written extensively about the arts. With her husband, art criticMark Stevens, she is the author ofde Kooning: An American Master (2004), a biography of Dutch-American artistWillem de Kooning, which was awarded the 2005Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.^[1]De Kooning also won theNational Book Critics Circle prize for biography^[2] and theLos Angeles Times biography award, and was named one of the 10 best books of 2005 byThe New York Times.^[3] In her review inThe New York Times,Janet Maslin wrote: "The elusiveness of its subject makes the achievements ofde Kooning: An American Master that much more dazzling."^[4]

APhi Beta Kappa graduate ofPrinceton University (Class of 1973), Swan was the first woman editor-in-chief ofThe Daily Princetonian.^[5] She was named aMarshall Scholar^[6] and earned her master's degree atKing's College, Cambridge. She began her writing career atTime, then joinedNewsweek in 1980 as music critic, becoming the magazine's senior arts editor in 1983. In 1986–1990 she was editor-in-chief ofSavvy,^[7] a magazine for professional women.^[8] She later taught at Princeton University, where she was named a trustee in 1999.^[9]

Swan has written for numerous publications, includingThe New Republic andVanity Fair,^[10] and is the winner of anASCAP-Deems Taylor Award^[11] and aFront Page Award for her music criticism. She is currently visiting professor^[12] and serves on the advisory boards^[13] at theLeon Levy Biography Center at the Graduate Center, theCity University of New York.^[14] Swan was named "Biloxian Made Good" in 2011.^[15]

In 2021, Swan and Mark Stevens published a biography of the British artistFrancis Bacon,Francis Bacon: Revelations, withHarperCollins (UK) andKnopf (US).^[16][17] They have two children.

• Mark Stevens; Willem De Kooning; Annalyn Swan (2004).De Kooning: An American Master. A.A. Knopf.ISBN 978-1-4000-4175-6.^[18]
• Peter W. Bernstein; Annalyn Swan (December 2, 2008).All the Money in the World. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.ISBN 978-0-307-26770-2.
• Annalyn Swan; Mark Stevens (2020).Francis Bacon: Revelations. HarperCollins.ISBN 9780007298419.

• Appearances onC-SPAN
• "'De Kooning: An American Master'".NPR. RetrievedAugust 22, 2018.
• "The New York Library Plan: A Biographer's Plea".The New York Times. May 1, 2012. RetrievedAugust 22, 2018.
• results, search (September 10, 2013).The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace. PublicAffairs.ISBN 978-1610393263.

• Living people
• Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography winners
• Princeton University alumni
• Alumni of King's College, Cambridge
• American art historians
• American women art historians
• 20th-century American historians
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• 21st-century American historians
• 21st-century American biographers
• 21st-century American women writers
• Princeton University faculty
• CUNY Graduate Center faculty
• Time (magazine) people
• Newsweek people
• People from Biloxi, Mississippi
• Writers from Mississippi
• American women autobiographers
• American autobiographers
• 1951 births
• American magazine editors
• National Book Critics Circle Award winners

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