Carolyn Burke has taught at Princeton University and the University of California, Santa Cruz, as well as at other universities in France, the United States, and Australia. She is the author of Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy.
""Burke indelibly portrays a radiant woman forced to look into the heart of darkness."" - Chicago Tribune ""Lee Miller was an astounding woman, brought memorably to life in this astounding book."" - Telegraph (UK) ""At last, a life and an album about Lee Miller.... For the first time the ravaged arc of [her] life is clear, beautiful but lined in pain."" - New York Observer ""Illuminating, revelatory, perceptive.... A welcome and long overdue biography sure to become essential reading for any student of the history of art and photography in the twentieth century."" - Scotsman (UK) ""Burke captures the excitement of Miller's omnivorous spirit."" - Janet Maslin, New York Times ""Delightful, meticulously researched, fascinating.... Miller's life had many phases, all of them interesting, and Burke captures them in [this] fine biography."" - Washington Post Book World""