Caroline Blackwood

Caroline Blackwood (1931–1996) was born into an aristocratic Anglo-Irish family and was famous for years largely on account of her flamboyantly bohemian existence, not to mention her tumultuous marriages to the painter Lucian Freud, the pianist and composer Israel Citkowitz, and the poet Robert Lowell. Taking up writing later in life, she soon demonstrated that hers was a mind as brilliant and ruthless as any of the men for whom she’d served as “muse,” producing reportage, fiction, biography, and even a cookbook.