Justin Spring is a New York based writer specializing in twentieth-century American art and culture. His biography SECRET HISTORIAN is a 2010 New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a 2010 National Book Award Finalist, an Amazon Top 10 Biography of the Year, an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book for 2011,winner of the 2011 Lamda Literary Award in Biography; the winner of the 2011 Randy Shilts Prize in Non-Fiction from the Publishing Triangle; and winner of the 2011 Geoff Mains Non-Fiction Prize of the National Leather Association. It is also an ARTFORUM Top 10 of 2010 pick and a Top 10 Book of the Year for 2010 in the San Francisco Chronicle. For a full review of SECRET HISTORIAN by Mark Harris in the New York Times Book Review:http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/books/review/Harris-t.html?_r=1&ref=bookreviewsFor a feature on Justin Spring's discovery of the Steward Archive, by Patti Cohen in the New York Times:http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/26/books/26secret.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Justin%20Spring&st=cseFor a slide show in the New York Times about the Steward Archive:www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/.../20100726-secret.html