About the Author

Neil Baldwin, a native New Yorker, received his PhD in Modern American Poetry from SUNY/Buffalo. He is the critically-acclaimed author of biographies of William Carlos Williams, Man Ray, Thomas Edison, and Henry Ford, as well as Legends of the Plumed Serpent: Biography of a Mexican God. For twenty years, prior to joining the faculty at Montclair State University, he was manager of The Annual Fund at The New York Public Library, and the founding executive director of The National Book Foundation, sponsor of the National Book Awards. As Professor of Theatre & Dance in the College of the Arts at MSU, he created and teaches BA undergraduate and MFA and MA graduate writing seminars on Dramaturgy and Danceaturgy; and is the founding director of The Creative Research Center. Neil Baldwin is represented by Andy McNicol at William Morris Agency. He is under contract with Alfred A. Knopf Publishers for Martha Graham: When Dance Became Modern.