Jackson Pollock: An American Saga

Jackson Pollock: An American Saga is a 1989 biography of abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock, by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith. It was considered "well-researched" by Publishers Weekly and Library Journal, and inspired Ed Harris to adapt it to film as Pollock in 2000. It was awarded the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.

The book was the first to explore the artist with psychological depth, based on interviews with over 850 people. The authors researched for eight years, had insight into various unpublished documents, medical and psychiatric reports, conversations with the artist's friends and widow Lee Krasner.

First edition
  • C. N. Potter, 1989, ISBN 0-517-56084-4

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