Phoebe Hoban is an American journalist perhaps known best for her biographies of the artists

Jean Michel Basquiat Jean-Michel Basquiat (; December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist who rose to success during the 1980s as part of the Neo-expressionism movement. Basquiat first achieved fame as part of the graffiti duo SAMO, alongside Al ...

('' Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art'',

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1998) and Alice Neel (''Alice Neel: The Art of not Sitting Pretty'',

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2010). Print edition January 2, 2011, p. BR14. Review of ''Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty''. As a print journalist Hoban has penned articles on culture and the arts for ''

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'', '' Vanity Fair'', '' GQ'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''Riot Material Magazine'', ''

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'', and numerous other periodicals. She is the daughter of the writer

Russell Hoban Russell Conwell Hoban (February 4, 1925 – December 13, 2011) was an American expatriate writer. His works span many genres, including fantasy, science fiction, mainstream fiction, magical realism, poetry, and children's books. He lived in ...

(1925–2011) and writer and illustrator

Lillian Hoban Lillian Hoban (May 18, 1925 – July 17, 1998) was an American illustrator and children's writer best known for picture books created with her husband Russell Hoban. According to OCLC, she has published 326 works in 1,401 publications in 11 lan ...

(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 as ''The Messiest Robot in Zone One'', and ''The Laziest Robot in Zone One (Harper & Row, 1983).

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(worldcat.org):
181512228865482
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