<p>Steven Poser is an author, NYS-licensed psychoanalyst, and exhibiting painter in New York City who brings his considerable psychiatric expertise to bear in writing biographies of artists and actors who have led distinctive lives. He is the author of <i>The Misfit, </i>a best-selling biography of Marilyn Monroe. He has also served as manager of the John Gibson Gallery in Soho, a consultant to the Whitney Museum, Programming Director of the Artists’ Television Network, and Visiting Critic for the New York Semester on Contemporary Art at Drew University.</p><p>Poser is also an accomplished painter. His work has been displayed at the Weatherspoon Gallery at the University of North Carolina; White Box in Chelsea; and the Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson, New York. He achieved the Gradiva Award in Painting from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis in 1997.</p>
