Mary Ann Caws is an American author, art historian and literary critic. She is currently Distinguished Professor of English, French and Comparative Literature at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. She is an expert on Surrealism and modern English and French literature, having written biographies of Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Henry James. She works on the interrelations of visual art and literary texts, has written biographies of Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dal�, edited the diaries, letters, and source material of Joseph Cornell. She has also written on Andr� Breton, Robert Desnos, Ren� Char, Yves Bonnefoy, Robert Motherwell, and Edmond Jab�s. She served as the senior editor for the HarperCollins World Reader, and edited anthologies including Manifesto: A Century of Isms, Surrealism, Twentieth-Century French Literature. Among others, she has translated St�phane Mallarm�, Tristan Tzara, Pierre Reverdy, Andr� Breton, Paul �luard, Robert Desnos, and Ren� Char. 

September 10th, 1933 in Wilmington (Age 91)