Cynthia Burlingham Author & Editor

Cynthia Burlingham has been Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles since 2011. She is also the director of the UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, a position she assumed in 2005 after holding various curatorial positions at the Grunwald Center. She has curated numerous exhibitions and has lectured and written extensively on the history of prints and drawings from the 16th through the 20th century. Margaret Sironval received a PhD in literature from the Sorbonne, and was a researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris from 1981 to 2005. She has published numerous articles and organized exhibitions on A Thousand and One Nights. She is the author of The Album of A Thousand and One Nights (2005) and A Thousand and One Nights (2011), in which she analyzes the transmission of the tales. British art historian Colin White specializes in early-20th-century illustration, including the work of golden age legends Edmund Dulac, Jessie M. King, Thomas Mackenzie, and Kay Nielsen. His published works include biographies of Dulac and King, a forthcoming biography of Nielsen, and an essay in TASCHEN’s East of the Sun and West of the Moon (2015). He has also written on sentimentality in art, Edward Ardizzone, and W. B. Yeats. Noel Daniel is a graduate of Princeton University and a former Fulbright Scholar to Berlin. Her TASCHEN publications include TATTOO 1730s-1950s, Kay Nielsen’s A Thousand and One Nights and East of the Sun and West of the Moon, The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Wintertime Tales, Magic, and The Circus.