Joan Acocella is a staff writer for The New Yorker, where she covers dance and books. She has also written for The New York Review of Books and The Wall Street Journal. She is the author of the critical biography Mark Morris; Creating
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Joan Acocella is a staff writer for
The New Yorker, where she covers dance and books. She has also written for
The New York Review of Books and
The Wall Street Journal. She is the author of the critical biography
Mark Morris; Creating Hysteria: Women and Multiple Personality Disorder; and
Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism. She edited the unexpurgated
Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky and, with Lynn Garafola,
André Levinson on Dance. Acocella was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in New York.