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de Kooning: An American Master

Mark Stevens, Annalyn Swan

Traces the career of abstract expressionist Willem De Kooning, discussing his personal life with wife Elaine Fried, and his battle with alcoholism and Alzheimer's disease.

BiographyBiography · high confidenceBiography81 signalsLlm Classifier: Biography -> BiographyOpen Library: Biography -> BiographyOpen Library: De kooning, willem, 1904-1997 -> BiographyArtistic BiographyArt, Music & PerformanceLiterature & Writers

Award History

3 wins · 3 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Pulitzer Prize in Biography or AutobiographyMajor2005WinnerSecondary source
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for BiographyMajor2004WinnerSecondary source
National Book Critics Circle Award for BiographyMajor2004WinnerSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    • Willem De Kooning90%
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    These suggestions did not meet the normal display threshold and are more likely to be wrong.

    • Elaine Fried50%

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    30 / 100 academic

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Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 72%.