Jean Strouse is the author of Mor­gan: Amer­i­can Financier, Alice James: A Biog­ra­phy, which won the Ban­croft Prize in Amer­i­can His­to­ry and Diplo­ma­cy, and Fam­i­ly Romance: John Singer Sar­gent and the Wertheimers. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The New York­er, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Archi­tec­tur­al Digest, and Newsweek. Strouse has been a Fel­low of the MacArthur Foun­da­tion and served as the Sue Ann and John Wein­berg Direc­tor of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cull­man Cen­ter for Schol­ars and Writ­ers at the New York Pub­lic Library from 2003 to 2017. She lives in New York City.