Carolyn Burke was born in Australia. A biographer, translator and art critic, she met and interviewed Lee Miller while conducting research for her previous biography, Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy. Her many articles and translations from the French have appeared in such magazines as Art In America, The New Yorker, PN Review, Pink, Hemispheres, and Poetry Flash. She lives in Santa Cruz, California and spends as much time as she can in Paris.

'Lee Miller was an astounding woman, brought memorably to life in this astounding book'

'Lee Miller "the Surrealist icon turned wartime heroine behind the lens" attracts a serious, and gripping biography from Carolyn Burke'

'Lee Miller does its perplexingly complicated subject more than justice, adding welcome depths and nuances to the familiar legend'

'Burke opens up the story of Lee's life. She offers many incredible stories and passages of considerable insight'

The first full-length biography of the legendary photographer Lee Miller