In another life Lipton was a professor of art history at Hunter College and the State University of NY, Binghamton. Spanning 75 years, from the tumultuous days of the Spanish Civil War and New York in the 1930s to the present, it explores the power of words and of memories to uncover buried secrets, reconstruct lost legacies, and even, perhaps, resurrect the dead. In her latest book, A Distant Heartbeat: A War, a Disappearance, and a Family’s Secrets, she takes an unexpected turn and writes what amounts to a political ghost story. Until she wrote French Seduction: An American’s Encounter with France, her Father and the Holocaust. Almost behind her back, Lipton began to write about Jewish culture, yet for decades avoided the subject of France and Jews. 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. In Looking Into Degas, it was the artist’s ironers, milliners and prostitutes that intrigued her. in art history from NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts. She writes memoir, cultural history and art criticism. Eunice Lipton was born in the Bronx, is a fervent New Yorker, but lives half the year in Paris.
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