Deborah C. Pollack

Deborah C. Pollack graduated with honors from Temple University with a degree in art history. She has written ten books, such as Visual Art and the Urban Evolution of the New South, Vintage Miami Beach Glamour, and Palm Beach Visual Arts. Prizes include the 2023 Florida Book Award Silver Medal for Florida Sculptors and Their Work: 1880–2020, and a women’s history award from Florida Memorial University (HBCU) for the scholarly biography Laura Woodward: The Artist Behind the Innovator Who Developed Palm Beach. Deborah’s essays are in such distinguished books as the New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture and Central to Their Lives: Women Artists in the Johnson Collection, and her articles have appeared in prestigious periodicals, including the American Art Review and the New York History Review. Her poetry has won prizes and poems and short stories have been published as well.