Calvin Tomkins is a longtime staff writer for The New Yorker. He has written more than a dozen books, including the bestseller Living Well is the Best Revenge (1971); Merchants and Masterpieces: The Story of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1970); Off the Wall: Robert Rauschenberg and the Art World of Our Time (1980); the highly acclaimed biography Duchamp (1966); and most recently, The Lives of Artists, a six-volume collection of his profiles of artists over the last sixty years just out from Phaidon Press. Tomkins was awarded the first Clark Prize for distinguished writing on the arts in 2007. He lives in New York City with his wife, Dodie Kazanjian. Dodie Kazanjian has written about artists and the art world for Vogue since 1989. She is the founding director of Gallery Met, the non-profit contemporary art space at the Metropolitan Opera. Her books include Icons: The Absolutes of Style, Dodie Goes Shopping, Vogue: The Covers, and Alex: The Life of Alexander Liberman, co-authored with her husband Calvin Tomkins. She lives in New York City.