Jean Strouse

Jean Strouse (born September 10, 1945, in Los Angeles, California) is an acclaimed American biographer best known for Alice James: A Biography (1980), which won the Bancroft Prize, Morgan: American Financier (1999), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers (2024)Wikipedia, NNDB, Jean Strouse site. She received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2001 and has held prominent roles including director of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public LibraryMacArthur Foundation.