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Cathy Curtis is a former Los Angeles Times staff writer and past president of Biographers International Organization. A graduate of Smith College with a master's degree in art history from the University of California, Berkeley, she is also the author of Restless Ambition: Grace Hartigan, Painter; Alive Still: Nell Blaine, American Painter; and A Generous Vision: The Creative Life of Elaine de Kooning. She lives in California.
Cathy Curtis has given us a stirring biography of Elizabeth Hardwick, who is still woefully underestimated as a humane Southern writer and unsparing New York intellectual, the author of a fictional masterpiece, Sleepless Nights, and some of the finest essays ever written about American literature. It's a thrill to read this splendidly intelligent book. -- Edward Hirsch, author of Stranger by Night Cathy Curtis's sympathetic yet clear-eyed portrait of Elizabeth Hardwick's brilliant mess of a life is a revelation... A vivid and at times harrowing book, A Splendid Intelligence is, in the end, a triumphant biography. -- William Souder, Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning author of Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck As a biographer, Curtis is sober, respectful, diligent. -- Jennifer Szalai - The New York Times Curtis treats Hardwick's work with respect and admiration. . . . I finished this book with a strong sense of Hardwick's resolve and intelligence. -- Heather Clark - The New York Times Book Review The fearless critic finally escapes the shadow of her husband Robert Lowell in Cathy Curtis's sensitive biography... Certainly other biographers of Hardwick will rely on Curtis's groundbreaking work, and, hopefully, make the case for her rightful inclusion among the important women writers of the 20th century. -- Elaine Showalter - The Spectator
