Steven Naifeh
Steven Naifeh (born June 19, 1952) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American biographer of both Jackson Pollock and Vincent van Gogh. In addition to writing 18 books with Gregory White Smith, Naifeh is a businessman who founded several companies, including Best Lawyers that spawned an industry of professional rankings.
Steven Naifeh | |
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| Born | June 19, 1952 |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Princeton University Harvard Law School Harvard Graduate School of Fine Arts |
| Occupation | Author |
| Website | www.stevennaifeh.com; www.vangoghbiography.com; www.bestlawyers.com |
He is also an artist whose geometric abstractions, many large in scale, have been exhibited widely throughout the world over a period of 45 years.
Jackson Pollock: An American Saga was published on December 24, 1989. The Philadelphia Inquirer called the book "Brilliant and definitive … so absorbing in its narrative drive and so exhaustively detailed that it makes everything that came before seem like trial balloons." Van Gogh: The Life, which Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times called "magisterial," was published in 2011 with a companion website hosting over 6,000 pages of notes.
His co-author, partner, and husband, Gregory White Smith, died in 2014 at the age of 62, having lived with a rare brain tumor for four decades.