Sarah L. Kaufman was the Pulitzer Prize-winning dance critic of the Washington Post, where she wrote for 27 years. She is the author of The Art of Grace: On Moving Well Through Life, and writes about the arts, entertainment, and society for the Wall Street Journal and the New York Review of Books, among others. Kaufman has taught writing courses at Harvard, American University, the National Critics Institute and Princeton, where she was a McGraw Professor of Writing. She has received journalism fellowships from the Nieman Foundation and French-American Foundation. She has three children and lives in Asheville, North Carolina, in the Appalachian mountains.
