Draft:Evelyn Toynton

Evelyn Toynton

Evelyn Toynton, an American living in England, is descended from a German Jewish refugee family. She is the author of three novels and a biography of Jackson Pollock, as well as a memoir of her German-Jewish refugee family which appeared in May 2024. Her essays, short memoirs, and reviews have appeared in the London Review of Books, Harper’s, the Atlantic, the American Scholar, Salmagundi, Prospect, and the Times Literary Supplement, among other publications.

Evelyn Toynton is married to the British abstract painter Norman Toynton. They lived for many years in the United States, before returning to the UK where they now live on the North Norfolk coast.

Books

Modern Art (2000, Delphinium) New York Times Notable Book of the Year, also short-listed for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and later published in Russian and Chinese translations.

Inheritance; a novel (2019)

The Oriental Wife (2011, Other Press), a novel, was optioned for a film and appeared in a Greek translation.

Jackson Pollock (2012) was published in Yale University Press’s Icons of America series.

Her latest publication is a memoir of her German-Jewish family, They were good Germans once, published by Delphinium/HarperCollins in May 2024.

Essays and articles

Evelyn Toynton's work has appeared in a number of anthologies, including:

Rereadings (ed. Anne Fadiman);

Mentors, Muses & Monsters (ed. Elizabeth Benedict);

Table Talk from the Threepenny Review (ed. Wendy Lesser); and

Novel Writing (eds. Romesh Guneseken & A.L. Kennedy).

Residencies and fellowships

Evelyn Toynton has been awarded multiple residencies and fellowships: the Corporation of Yaddo, the Djerassi Artists Residency, the Maison Dora Maar, the Chateau de Lavigny Writers' Residence, the International Writers' Residency, the International Center for Writers & Translators in Nida, Lithuania, and the Spiti tis Logotexnias in Paros, Greece.