E S S AY I S T B I O S
Joรฃo Ribas is curator at The Drawing Center. Mary Ann Caws is Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature at the Graduate School, City University of New York. She is the author of many books on the relations between literature and art, including The Surrealist Look: An Erotics of Encounter (MIT), Dora Maar With and Without Picasso (Thames and Hudson), Pablo Picasso (Critical Lives, Reaktion Books), Salvador Dali (Critical Lives), other illustrated biographies: Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Henry James (all for Overlook Duckworth), Women of Bloomsbury (Routledge), a memoir (To the Boathouse) and a memoir/cookbook: Provenรงal Cooking: Savoring the Simple Life in France, works on and in translation, including Surprised in Translation (Chicago), and editor of Surrealist Painters and Poets (MIT), Surrealist Love Poems (Tate Publishing, and the University of Chicago Press), and Surrealism (Phaidon Press).