Hayden Herrera

Hayden Herrera (née Philips; born November 20, 1940) is an American author and historian.

[2] After leaving Radcliffe to pursue painting, she married Harvard University alumni Phillip Herrera in 1961.

[5] In 1976, she wrote an article about Kahlo, which she submitted to a publishing agency, and centered her thesis around the artist in 1981.

[6] She subsequently published two more books in the 1990s; Mary Frank and Matisse: A Portrait,[2] which earned her a 1996 Guggenheim Fellowship.

[7] At the turn of the century, her first book was chosen to be adapted into a studio film Frida starring Salma Hayek.