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Jean Strouse

Jean Strouse, Director of the Dorothy and Lewis B. ­Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York 
Public Library and the author of Alice James, A Biography and Morgan: American Financier, is writing a book about John Singer Sargent’s twelve portraits of the Asher Wertheimer family.


Why Did Isabel Go Back?

Why Did Isabel Go Back?

Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece

by Michael Gorra

November 22, 2012 issue

Working Woman

Alice Hamilton: A Life in Letters

by Barbara Sicherman

May 9, 1985 issue

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