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Nicholas Kilmer, born in Virginia, lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Normandy, France. A teacher for many years, and finally Dean of the Swain School of Design in New Bedford, Massachusetts, he now makes his living as a painter and art dealer. In 1964 he married Julia Norris, and with her has four children.
A witty, acerbic tale of art, the academe, and adverse possession that is part social commentary and part bloody murder. Dana Stabenow on A Butterfly in Flames Nicholas Kilmer's A Butterfly in Flame is an intriguing and original academic mystery with enough wit and literary chops to make it stand out from the crowd. A true pleasure to read. Peter Robinson In one of the mysteries he sets in the Boston art world, Nicholas Kilmer had the wit to designate rapacious museum directors and art dealers the wild dogs of civilization. Well, the hounds are back in MADONNA OF THE APES, which finds Fred Taylor, the erudite leg-and-muscle man for an eccentric Beacon Hill art collector, investigating the discovery of a previously unknown work by Leonardo da Vinci.The mystery, of course, is whether this depiction of a Madonna with child and monkeys is authentic.But the real pleasure is following Kilmer's research into Leonardo's secret life -- and waiting for the dogs to pounce. Marilyn Stasio, New York Times on Madonna of the Apes
