Mark Stevens (art critic)

Mark Stevens
Born (1951-08-14) August 14, 1951 (age 73)
New York City
OccupationArt critic, author
NationalityAmerican
Alma materPrinceton University (BA), King's College, Cambridge (MA)
GenreBiography
Notable worksde Kooning: An American Master
Notable awardsPulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
SpouseAnnalyn Swan
Website
www.stevensandswan.com

Mark Stevens (born August 14, 1951) is an American writer who was co-awarded the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography with Annalyn Swan for De Kooning: An American Master. His book with Swan also received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography in 2004 and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize in 2005. During his writing career, Stevens was an art critic for Newsweek, The New Republic and New York between the 1970s to 2000s. Other publications by Stevens include a 1981 work on Richard Diebenkorn's art and a 1984 book called Summer of the City.