Memoirist, Critic, Art Historian
Eunice Lipton was born in the Bronx, is a fervent New Yorker, but lives half the year in Paris. She writes memoir, cultural history and art criticism. Lipton received her Ph.D. in art history from NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts.
In Looking Into Degas , it was the artist’s ironers, milliners and prostitutes that intrigued her. In Alias Olympia , she imagined the life of a 19th century artist’s model as well as her own mother’s 9-5 shifts at Woolworth’s. Almost behind her back, Lipton began to write about Jewish culture, yet for decades avoided the subject of France and Jews. Until she wrote French Seduction: An American’s Encounter with France, her Father and the Holocaust . In her latest book, A Distant Heartbeat: A War, a Disappea