Jean Strouse

Jean Strouse is the author of several biographies, including Alice James: A Biography , which won the Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy. Her essays and reviews have appeared in the New Yorker , New York Review of Books , New York Times , Architectural Digest , and Newsweek . She has been a Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation and served as the Sue Ann and John Weinberg Director of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library from...See more

Jean Strouse is the author of several biographies, including Alice James: A Biography , which won the Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy. Her essays and reviews have appeared in the New Yorker , New York Review of Books , New York Times , Architectural Digest , and Newsweek . She has been a Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation and served as the Sue Ann and John Weinberg Director of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library from 2003 to 2017. See less