Mary Ann Caws

Mary Ann Caws is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature, English, and French, Graduate School of the City University of New York; officier of the Palmes académiques; chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres; recipient of Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Getty fellowships; fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; author of Surrealist Painters and Poets, Dora Maar: Picasso’s Weeping Woman, Blaise Pascal: Miracles and Reason, The Modern Art Cookbook, Creative Gatherings: Meeting Places of Modernism; and editor of The Yale Anthology of Twentieth-Century French Poetry and The Harper Collins World Reader.