Table of Contents

* Introduction * Growing Up in the West: 1912-1929 * American Scene, New York Scene, Personal Scene: 1930-1941 * Surrealists Come to New York: 1941-1946 * Roots in East Hampton: 1946-1947 * The Club: An Interchapter: 1948-1962 * Fame: 1948-1949 * The Biggest Year: 1950 * Black and White: 1951 * The Action Painter: 1952 * The Final Years: 1953-1956 * Post-mortem: 1956-

About the Author

Novelist, biographer, playwright, and art critic, B. H. Friedman has written monographs on the artists Lee Krasner, Alfonso Ossorio, and Robert Goodnough, among others. Whispers, one of his six novels, was recommended for a National Book Award.