Credits

Photograph on page 12, bottom right, by Tony Heriza.

Photographs on page 20: top left, courtesy of Actors Theatre of 'Louisville, Kentucky; center, courtesy of Annina Nosei Gallery, New York.

Photographs of paintings on page 21: top, by eeva-inkeri, courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; bottom, courtesy of Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York.

Photograph on page 22, left, by Robin Kaplan/RETNA Ltd.

"Imagine My Mother Dancing" is excerpted from the novel Democracy by Joan Didion © 1984 by Joan Didion. To be published in April by Simon and Schuster.

Paintings on pages 58-60, 62, 64-65, and 67 courtesy of the Prado, Madrid.

Painting on page 76 photographed by George Lange, courtesy of the Louvre, Paris.

Photograph on page 80 courtesy of Special Collections, University of Maryland College Park Libraries.

Photograph on page 82 from Bettmann Archive. Questionnaire on page 83 reprinted with permission of the Katherine Anne Porter Estate, courtesy of Special Collections, University of Maryland College Park Libraries.

Photographs on pages 86, 98, and 102 by Jim McHugh/ People Weekly © 1983.

Photograph on page 88 by George Lange, from the MGM release Poltergeist © 1982 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Film Co. ond SLM Entertainment, Ltd.

Photograph on page 94 from the Los Angeles Times.

Sculptures on pages 110 and 112 photographed by George Lange.

Photographs on page 116 courtesy of Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York.