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October 12, 2011

Best Lawyers Founders Publish Van Gogh Epic

Steve Naifeh & Greg White Smith

As well as being legal directory pioneers, the founders and owners of Best Lawyers lead double lives as award-winning authors and biographers.

Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith (above) are about to publish a new biography of the artist Vincent van Gogh (titled Van Gogh: The Life).

The product of a decade of work, the Curator of the Van Gogh Museum has called the book “the definitive biography”.

Click here for more details, and to buy the book.

U.S viewers will be able to see a segment on the book on CBS’s “60 Minutes” on Sunday, October 16 2011.

Naifeh and Smith, who founded the peer review-based lawyer directory in the 1980s, have also written 12 nonfiction books.

Their most successful work, “Jackson Pollock: An American Saga”, won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1991, and was the basis of the Academy Award-winning film “Pollock” starring Ed Harris.

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