Meryle Secrest is the author of numerous biographies about figures in the arts. She received the Presidential National Humanities Medal at the White House in 2006. Her latest book is The Mysterious Affair at Olivetti: IBM, the CIA, and the Cold War Conspiracy to Shut Down Production of the World’s First Desktop Computer.
Meryle Secrest
Prophets of the Avant-Garde
How two power couples changed the world of art
by Meryle Secrest | Monday, March 04, 2019
What A Long, Strange Trip It’s Been
The celebrated depiction of a miracle is, by its very survival, a miracle in itself
by Meryle Secrest | Thursday, March 18, 2021
Image Was Everything
A new biography of the seminal pop artist of the 20th century
by Meryle Secrest | Monday, March 02, 2020
Lives of the Artists
The vistas and losses of two great English painters
by Meryle Secrest | Tuesday, September 04, 2018
Before the Rebellion
A colonial American artist’s portraits of an age
by Meryle Secrest | Tuesday, September 06, 2016
