Phyllis Rose
Phyllis Rose is the author of many noted works of biography and criticism, including The Shelf: From LEQ to LES, Woman of Letters: A Life of Virginia Woolf, Jazz Cleopatra: Josephine Baker in Her Time, The Year of Reading Proust: A Memoir in Real Time and, most recently, Alfred Stieglitz: Taking Pictures, Making Painters. She is the editor of The Norton Book of Women’s Lives. For many years she was a professor of English at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. She divides her time...

