Fairfield Porter A Life in Art

"[A]n exhaustive and intimate biography of a complex man; by reason of its focus on such an individualist, it is also a valuable addition to the intellectual histories of New York School painting and poetry. Despite his bottled-up personality and his tendency either to suppress feelings or state them with disarming bluntness, Porter probed deeply into his inner self, especially in his copious correspondence (to be published later this year by the University of Michigan Press), which Spring has used scrupulously. "Spring, Justin is the author of 'Fairfield Porter A Life in Art' with ISBN 9780300076370 and ISBN 0300076371.