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Mary Ann Caws

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Mary Ann Caws (born 1933) is an American author, art historian and literary critic

She is currently a Distinguished Professor of English, French and Comparative Literature at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. She is an expert on Surrealism and modern English and French literature, having written biographies of Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Henry James. She works on the interrelations of visual art and literary texts, has written biographies of Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí, edited the diaries, letters, and source material of Joseph Cornell. She has also written on André Breton, Robert Desnos, René Char, Yves Bonnefoy, Robert Motherwell, and Edmond Jabès. She served as the senior editor for the HarperCollins World...more

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Books by Mary Ann Caws

Average rating: 4.12 · 1,103 ratings · 85 reviews · 79 distinct works

	Joseph Cornell's Theater of the Mind: Selected Diaries, Letters, and Files by Mary Ann Caws, John Ashbery (Goodreads Author) (Foreword by), Robert Motherwell (Introduction) 4.33 avg rating — 66 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Surrealist Love Poems 4.29 avg rating — 59 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Manifesto: A Century of Isms 3.98 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	The Yale Anthology of Twentieth-Century French Poetry 4.33 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Marcel Proust 4.09 avg rating — 22 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Picasso's Weeping Woman 4.17 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	Surrealist Painters and Poets: An Anthology 4.18 avg rating — 17 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Surrealism and Women 3.64 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1991	My rating:
	Surrealism 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	Virginia Woolf by Mary Ann Caws, The Overlook Press 3.68 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	My rating: