Carol BeckerGeorge's Daughter is a companion volume to Carol Becker's first memoir/essay, Losing Helen. Becker has also written numerous articles and several collections of essays as well as nonfiction books, including: The Invisible Drama: Women and the Anxietyof Change; The Subversive Imagination: Artists, Society, and Social Responsibility; Zones of Contention: Essays on Art, Institutions, Gender, and Anxiety; Surpassing the Spectacle: Global Transformations and the Changing Politics of Art; Thinking in Place: Art, Action, and Cultural Production. Carol Becker is Professor of the Arts and Dean Emerita of Columbia University School of the Arts. Before arriving at Columbia, she was Professor of Liberal Arts, Dean of Faculty, and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She received her PhD in English and American Literature from the University of California, San Diego. She travels widely, lectures about art, culture, and the place of art in society. Her writing, talks, and interviews can be found at caroldbecker.com. Becker's third memoir/essay, in progress, will focus on her time in California from 1968 to 1978, a decade of revolutionary ideas and actions that continue to transform the world. Read More Read Less