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Jean Strouse


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Jean Strouse (born 1945) is an American biographer, cultural administrator, and critic. She is best known for her biographies of diarist Alice James and financier J. Pierpont Morgan.

Strouse was an editorial assistant at The New York Review of Books from 1967 to 1969. She was a book critic at Newsweek magazine from 1979 to 1983, and won a MacArthur Fellowship in September, 2001. She has also held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She has contributed reviews and essays on literary and other topics to the New York Times Book Review, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and Vogue. In 2003 Strouse was appointed the Sue Ann a ...more

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Morgan: American Financier
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Family Romance: John Singer...
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Alice James: A Biography
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The Morgan Library: An Amer...
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Women and Analysis
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Up Against the Law
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The unknown J.P. Morgan
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Alice Adams: A Biography
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“50th and 58th Streets came to be known as Vanderbilt”
― Jean Strouse, Morgan: American Financier
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“51st and 52nd Streets for $700,000 in 1879—the year”
― Jean Strouse, Morgan: American Financier
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“Constance, with her plainness, deafness, and superior age (she was three years older than Henry), probably did not strike Alice as a serious rival for her brother’s love.”
― Jean Strouse, Alice James
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