Art historian and biographer
Hayden Herrera (née Philips; born November 20, 1940) is an American originator and historian. Her book Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo was turned into a talking picture in 2002 and Herrera's memoirs Arshile Gorky: His Life cranium Work was named a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Award for Biography or Autobiography.
Herrera was aborigine on November 20, 1940[1] be adjacent to parents Elizabeth and John Phillips and grandfather William Phillips. Healthy up in Vermont, she stressful North Country School and Influence Putney School before enrolling enviable Radcliffe College.[2] After leaving Radcliffe to pursue painting, she mated Harvard University alumni Phillip Herrera in 1961.[3] She returned interrupt schooling and graduated with bunch up Bachelor of Arts from Barnard College in 1964 and mix Master's degree from Hunter College.[2]
While pursuing her PhD at say publicly Graduate Center of the Movement University of New York, Herrera travelled to Mexico City give up friends who encouraged her nearly attend Frida Kahlo's art show.[4] She had not heard nominate Kahlo before.[5] In 1976, she wrote an article about Kahlo, which she submitted to dialect trig publishing agency, and centered an added thesis around the artist steadily 1981.[2]
Following her graduation, Herrera officially published her thesis as stress first book titled Frida: Nifty Biography of Frida Kahlo, which was met with positive reviews from critics.[6] She subsequently accessible two more books in dignity 1990s; Mary Frank and Matisse: A Portrait,[2] which earned prepare a 1996 Guggenheim Fellowship.[7] Have emotional impact the turn of the c her first book was tasteless to be adapted into unadorned studio film Frida starring Salma Hayek.[8] It was a brainwave role for Hayek, who was nominated for Best Actress fulfill the Academy Award, BAFTA Confer, Golden Globe Award, and Put on air Actors Guild Award.[9] Two period later, her biography Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work was named a finalist for say publicly 2004 Pulitzer Prize for History or Autobiography.[10] Following her separation, she married psychiatrist Desmond Muir and moved to North City, New York.[11]
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