Diane Arbus

'A biography that seems to have more than enough material for several art legends. Patricia Bosworth has created a spellbinding portrait' New York

'Sensitive...detailed...balanced' New York Times

'An excellent biography' TLS

'A biography that seems to have more than enough material for several art legends. Patricia Bosworth has created a spellbinding portrait' New York Magazine

'A spirited biography' Time

'A masterly biography-A powerful and moving books about a life riddled with despair and yet redeemed by art' Newsday 'A masterly biography-A powerful and moving books about a life riddled with despair and yet redeemed by art' Newsday

'Patricia Bosworth does justice both to Arbus's fascinating singularity and to the emblematic nature of her fate; her book would hold even someone who had never seen an Arbus photograph. Bosworth writes conscientiously, with restraint and self-effacement' Listener