Laura Cumming has been the art critic of The Observer (London) since 1999. Previously, she was arts editor of The New Statesman (UK), literary editor of The Listener (UK), and deputy editor of Literary Review. She is a former columnist for The Herald (Scotland) and has contributed to the Evening Standard (London), The Guardian, L'Express, and Vogue. Her book The Vanishing Velazquez was a New York Times bestseller, a Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was longlisted for the Bailie Gifford Prize.
Praise for The Vanishing Velazquez "A sumptuous, impressively
erudite effort by Laura Cumming... a gleaming work of someone at
the peak of her craft."-- "Jennifer Senior, The New York Times"
Praise for Five Days Gone "This is an incredible, and incredibly
unusual, book about family, secrets, the ruinous sexual shame and
hypocrisy of the first half of the English twentieth century. It's
one of the best memoirs I have ever read... There is so much about
[Five Days Gone] that moves; there is so much about it that
educates. It is, and will remain a favorite, to be re-read one day,
to be recommended to anyone who will listen."-- "Nick Hornby, The
Believer"
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