Other publications by Stevens include a 1981 work on Richard Diebenkorn's art and a 1984 book called Summer of the City.
[5][6] In 1989, Stevens and his wife Annalyn Swan signed with Bantam Books for a future biography about Willem de Kooning.
[7] After spending ten years on the writing process, de Kooning: An American Master was released in 2004 by Alfred A.
[8][9] In 2008, Stevens and Swan reached a deal with Knopf for a future Francis Bacon biography.
[11][12] In 2004, Stevens and Swan won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography with De Kooning: An American Master.