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Phoebe Hoban

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Phoebe Hobanis an American journalist perhaps known best for her biographies of the artistsJean Michel Basquiat(Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art,Viking1998)[1]andAlice Neel(Alice Neel: The Art of not Sitting Pretty,St. Martin's Press2010).[2]As a print journalist Hoban has penned articles on culture and the arts forVogue,Vanity Fair,GQ,Harper's Bazaar,New York Magazine,The New York Times,Riot Material Magazine,ARTnews,and numerous other periodicals.[3]

She is the daughter of the writerRussell Hoban(1925–2011) and writer and illustratorLillian Hoban(1925–1998). Her parents divorced in 1975.

Early in the 1980s, Lillian and Phoebe Hoban co-wrote two science fiction books for beginning readers, illustrated by Lillian:Ready-set-robot!(Harper & Row, 1982), reissued asThe Messiest Robot in Zone One,andThe Laziest Robot in Zone One (Harper & Row, 1983).[4]

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  1. ^"BASQUIAT: A Quick Killing in Art by Phoebe Hoban".Kirkus Reviews.kirkusreviews.com. June 15, 1998.Retrieved2014-02-09.
  2. ^Deborah Solomon(December 29, 2010)."The Nonconformist".The New York Times.Retrieved2014-02-09.Print edition January 2, 2011, p. BR14. Review ofAlice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty.
  3. ^"Phoebe Hoban".Macmillan US (us.macmillan.com).Retrieved2014-02-09.
  4. ^WorldCat(worldcat.org):OCLC7738092;18151222;8865482.Retrieved 2015-09-26.
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