Nell Irvin Painter

NELL IRVIN PAINTER, Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita, Princeton University, is the author of books including the New York Times bestseller The History of White People ; Sojourner Truth, A Life, A Symbol ; and the National Book Critics Circle finalist Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over . A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2007, she has received honorary degrees from Yale, Wesleyan, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Dartmouth....See more

NELL IRVIN PAINTER, Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita, Princeton University, is the author of books including the New York Times bestseller The History of White People ; Sojourner Truth, A Life, A Symbol ; and the National Book Critics Circle finalist Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over . A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2007, she has received honorary degrees from Yale, Wesleyan, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Dartmouth. After a Ph.D. in history from Harvard, she earned degrees in painting from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers and the Rhode Island School of Design. Nell Painter lives and works in East Orange, New Jersey, and has made artists' books in residencies such as MacDowell, Yaddo, Ucross, and Bogliasco. She currently serves as Madame Chairman of MacDowell. See less