Judith Lissauer Cromwell

A magna cum laude graduate of Smith College, Judith Lissauer Cromwell received her doctorate in modern European history, with academic distinction, from New York University. After twenty years on Wall Street, she returned to academia as an independent historian.

Cromwell’s first book, "Dorothea Lieven; A Russian Princess in London and Paris, 1785-1857", is the definitive biography of a powerful woman who changed the course of history. "Florence Nightingale, Feminist" is the first full-length biography of Nightingale to be written from a post-feminist perspective. "Good Queen Anne Appraising the Life and Reign of the Last Stuart Monarch" reveals a woman who surmounted personal tragedy to become a popular and effective ruler.

These three historical biographies about complex and famous women who have shaped European history qualify Judith, a scholar, mother, grandmother and former corporate executive to write her latest book, "Louise-Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun Portrait of an Artist." The author brings practical experience and solid academic credentials to bear in her examination of Vigée Le Brun; the author also meets the challenge of conveying this artist’s compelling story to the modern reader.

Judith Lissauer Cromwell lives in New York.