Prize Winner 2018:
Sebastian Smee
Sebastian Smee is an art critic for The Washington Post and the author of Paris in Ruins: Love, War and the Birth of Impressionism (Norton) and The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art (Random House), which was translated into a dozen languages. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism while at The Boston Globe in 2011, after being runner-up in 2008. Living in the U.K. between 2000 and 2004, he worked for the Daily Telegraph, The Art Newspaper, The Guardian, The Independent, The Times, The Financial Times, Prospect, and The Spectator. In Australia, he worked as the art critic for the Sydney Morning Herald and the Australian. He was awarded the Rabkin Prize in 2018 and was a MacDowell Fellow in 2021. He taught the Garis Seminar for Creative Non-fiction at Wellesley College between 2010 and 2022.