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Doon Arbus (born April 3, 1945) is an American writer and journalist. Her debut novel is ''The Caretaker'' ( New Directions, 2020). Her play, ''Third Floor, Second Door on the Right'', was produced at the Cherry Lane Theatre by the 2003

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"> Doon Arbus is the elder daughter of actor

Allan Arbus Allan Franklin Arbus (February 15, 1918 – April 19, 2013) was an American actor and photographer. He was the former husband of photographer Diane Arbus. He is known for his role as psychiatrist Dr. Sidney Freedman on the CBS television serie ...

and photographer

Diane Arbus Diane Arbus (; ; March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971
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, and the great-granddaughter of Russeks co-founder

Frank Russek Frank Russek (1875/1876 - December 10, 1948) was a Polish-born American businessman, and the co-founder of the Russeks department store chain. He was the grandfather of photographer Diane Arbus (who in turn was the mother of photographer Amy Ar ...

. She was 26 when her mother committed suicide, at which time she became responsible for the management of her mother's estate. She has authored or contributed to five books on Diane Arbus's work, including ''An Aperture Monograph'' (

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, 1972) and ''Revelations'' (

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, 2003). She has also organized numerous photographic exhibitions in collaboration with

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, the

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, and the

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, among other institutions. As a freelance journalist in the mid-1960s, alongside other writers like

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, and

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, she contributed to the ''

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's'' Sunday supplement, ''

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'', one of the earliest proponents of

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. Her articles also appeared in ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. Her 1966 ''New York Herald'' article "James Brown Is Out of Sight" was among the first profiles of the R&B legend and is included in ''The James Brown Reader'' ( Plume, 2008). Arbus was a longtime collaborator of

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, with whom she coauthored the books ''Alice in Wonderland: The Forming of a Company, the Making of a Play'' (

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, 1973) and ''Avedon: The Sixties'' (Random House, 1999).

Published work

Selected articles and criticism

* "James Brown Is Out of Sight", ''New York/The Sunday Herald Tribune Magazine'', 1966 * "The Man in the Paper Suit: James Rosenquist", ''New York/The Sunday World Journal Tribune Magazine'', (1966) * "In Person: The Mothers of Invention", ''

'', 1967 * "The Autobiography of Michael J. Pollard", ''Cheetah'', 1968 * "Dustin Hoffman: I'm Sorry I Couldn't Be Here Tonight", ''Cheetah'', 1968 * "How Fat Alice Lost 12 Stone (Yes 12 Stone—the Weight of An Average Man!) and Found Happiness, God, and the Chance of a Husband", ''The London Sunday Times Magazine'', 1969 * "Diane Arbus Photographer", ''Ms. Magazine'', 1972 * "Walker Evans: Allusions to a Presence", ''The Nation'', 1978 * "The Collector: Photographer Peter Beard's Wild Life and Times", ''Rolling Stone'', 1978

Books

* ''Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph'' (editor and co-designer). New York: Aperture, 1972 * ''Alice in Wonderland: The Forming of a Company, the Making of a Play'' (coauthor). New York: E. P. Dutton, 1973 * ''Magazine Work'' (editor). New York: Aperture, 1984 * ''Untitled: Diane Arbus'' (editor, contributor, and co-designer). New York: Aperture, 1995 * ''Avedon: The Sixties'' (coauthor). New York: Random House, 1999 * ''Diane Arbus Revelations'' (author), New York: Random House, 2003 * ''Diane Arbus: A Chronology, 1923–1971'' (author). New York: Aperture, 2011 * ''The Caretaker: A Novel'' (author). New York: New Directions, 2020

References

External links

*
PEN America profileAperture publicationsNew Directions author page

The Caretaker official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Arbus, Doon 1945 births Living people American women non-fiction writers American people of Polish-Jewish descent American people of Russian-Jewish descent Arbus family Jewish American journalists Reed College alumni 20th-century American women journalists 20th-century American journalists Russek family 21st-century American Jews