Mark Stevens

Stevens won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography alongside his wife Annalyn Swan for De Kooning: An American Master.

Outside of art, Stevens published a work about Richard Diebenkorn's artworks in 1981. In 1984, he released his first book Summer of the City in 1984 while writing for Newsweek. In 1989, Stevens and his wife Annalyn Swan signed with Bantam Books for a future biography about Willem de Kooning. After spending ten years on the writing process, de Kooning: An American Master was released in 2004 by Alfred A. Knopf. In 2008, Stevens and Swan reached a deal with Knopf for a future Francis Bacon biography.

Stevens began his writing career as a freelancer in 1975 before becoming an art critic for Newsweek in 1977. He remained at Newsweek until August 1988 while expanding his writings with The New Republic and Vanity Fair. At The New Republic, Stevens started critiquing art in 1986 before continuing his art critic career with New York in 1996. Stevens remained with the magazine until his resignation in 2007.

Mark Stevens (born August 14, 1951) is an American writer who was co-awarded the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography with Annalyn Swan for De Kooning: An American Master. During his writing career, Stevens was an art critic for Newsweek, The New Republic and New York between the 1970s to 2000s. Other publications by Stevens include a 1981 work Richard Diebenkorn's art and a 1984 book called Summer of the City.

On August 14, 1951, Stevens was born in New York City. For his post-secondary education, Stevens received a Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University in 1973 and a Master of Arts from King's College in 1975.