Tate Modern, London in 2019. Literary career Tanning wrote stories and poems throughout her life, with her first short story published in VVV in 1943 and original poems accompanying her etchings in the limited edition books Demain (1964) and En chair et en or (1973). However, it was after her return to New York in the 1980s that she began to focus on her writing. In 1986, she published her first memoir, entitled Birthday for the painting that had figured so prominently in her biography. It has since been translated into four other languages. In 2001, she wrote an expanded version of her memoir called Between Lives: An Artist and Her World. With the encouragement of her friend and mentor James Merrill (who was for many years Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets), Tanning began to write her own poetry in her eighties, and her poems were published regularly in literary reviews and magazines such as The Yale Review, Poetry, The Paris Review, and The New Yorker until the end of her life. A collection of her poems, A Table of Content, and a short novel, Chasm: A Weekend, were both published in 2004. Her second collection of poems, Coming to That, was published by Graywolf Press in 2011. In 1994, Tanning endowed the Wallace Stevens Award of the Academy of American Poets, an annual prize of $100,000 awarded to a poet in recognition of outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry. Bibliography Books by Dorothea Tanning Abyss. New York: Standard Editions, 1977. Birthday. Santa Monica: The Lapis Press, 1986. (memoir) Between Lives: An Artist and Her World. New York: W.W. Norton, 2001. (memoir) Chasm: A Weekend. New York: Overlook Press, and London: Virago Press, 2004. (novel) A Table of Content: Poems. New York: Graywolf Press, 2004. (collection of poems) Coming to That: Poems, New York: Graywolf Press, 2011. (collection of poems) Monographs Bosquet, Alain. La Peinture de Dorothea Tanning. Paris: Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1966. Plazy, Giles. Dorothea Tanning. Paris: Editions Filipacchi, 1976 and (English translation) 1979. Dorothea Tanning: Numéro Spécial de XXe Siècle. Paris: Editions XXe Siècle, 1977. Bailly, Jean Christopher, John Russell, and Robert C. Morgan. Dorothea Tanning. New York: George Braziller, 1995. McAra, Catriona. A Surrealist Stratigraphy of Dorothea Tanning’s Chasm. London: Routledge, 2017. Carruthers, Victoria. Dorothea Tanning: Transformations. London: Lund Humphries, 2020. Exhibition catalogues Waldberg, Patrick. Dorothea Tanning, Casino Communal, XXe Festival Belge D'Été.