Steven Watson is a cultural historian who is interested in
the group dynamics of the twentieth century American
avant-garde. In addition to his books for Pantheon, he is
the author of: Strange Bedfellows: The First American
Avant-Garde (Abbeville, 1991), Prepare for Saints:
Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson and the Mainstreaming of
American Modernism (Random House, 1999) and An Eye
on the Modern Century: The Selected Letters of Henry
McBride (co-editor, Yale University Press, 2001). Watson
has also organized two exhibitions at the National Portrait
Gallery: Group Portrait: The First American Avant-Garde,
and Rebels: Painters and Poets of the 1950s, published a
collaborative artists' portfolio. Artifacts at the End of a
Decade, and produced and directed Prepare for Saints, a
documentary film about the opera. Four Saints in Three
Acts, broadcast on Public Television.
