Mary Ann Caws, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Mary Ann Caws

American historian and writer

Date of Birth: 10-Sep-1933

Place of Birth: Wilmington, North Carolina, United States

Profession: historian, university teacher, art historian

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Mary Ann Caws

  • Mary Ann Caws (born 1933) is an American author, art historian and literary critic. She is currently Distinguished Professor of English, French and Comparative Literature at the Graduate School of the City University of New York.
  • She is an expert on Surrealism and modern English and French literature, having written biographies of Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Henry James.
  • She works on the interrelations of visual art and literary texts, has written biographies of Pablo Picasso and Salvador DalĂ­, edited the diaries, letters, and source material of Joseph Cornell.
  • She has also written on AndrĂ© Breton, Robert Desnos, RenĂ© Char, Yves Bonnefoy, Robert Motherwell, and Edmond Jabès.
  • She served as the senior editor for the HarperCollins World Reader, and edited anthologies including Manifesto: A Century of Isms, Surrealism, Twentieth-Century French Literature.
  • Among others, she has translated StĂ©phane MallarmĂ©, Tristan Tzara, Pierre Reverdy, AndrĂ© Breton, Paul Éluard, Robert Desnos, and RenĂ© Char. Among the positions she has held are President, Association for Study of Dada and Surrealism, 1971–75 and President, Modern Language Association of America, 1983, Academy of Literary Studies, 1984–85, and the American Comparative Literature Association, 1989-91. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University. She is a Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities. In October 2004, she published her autobiography, To the Boathouse: a Memoir (University Alabama Press), and in November 2008, a cookbook memoir: Provencal Cooking: Savoring the Simple Life in France (Pegasus Books).
  • Forthcoming are her edition of Pierre Reverdy (with 14 translators), New York Review Books, and The Modern Art Cookbook (Reaktion Books). She was married to Peter Caws and is the mother of Hilary Caws-Elwitt and of Matthew Caws, lead singer of the band Nada Surf.
  • She is married to Dr.
  • Boyce Bennett; they live in New York City.

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