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Mary Ann Caws
Mary Ann Caws is a distinguished professor emerita of the French, English, and Comparative Literature PhD programs at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. Specializing in Dada and surrealism and the Bloomsbury group, she is the author of many volumes on literature and art, including illustrated biographies of writers and painters. Her most recent publications include The Modern Art Cookbook, Creative Gatherings: Meeting Places of Modernism, and The Milk Bowl of Feathers: Essential Surrealist Texts. A translator of several poets and an editor of several anthologies, she was the chief editor of The HarperCollins World Reader.