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Writings

Coming in 2027, Love Interrupted — A Memoir. 

In Love Interrupted, Deborah Curtiss delivers a beautifully crafted, dual-thread memoir that interweaves her fifty-three-year career in the fine arts with a clandestine romance that spanned nearly her entire life. Born into a patriarchal household and raised to believe a woman was "nobody" without a husband, Deborah broke the mold to study at Yale, eventually emerging as a prominent figure in the Philadelphia art community.

But beneath her professional triumphs and professional classical singing was a secret she carried since she was two years old: a deep, unyielding love for her cousin, Per. Separated by family decrees and marriages on the rebound, their connection remained a quiet sanctuary through decades of heartbreak, grief, and self-discovery.

Written with "complete candor, integrity, and authenticity," Love Interrupted is an inspiring testament to the power of creative expression and the resilience of a love that waited a lifetime to finally be sung in concert.

Publication List

During my career as a writer, I focused primarily on ‘informational’ writing as a source of income. Since 2014, memoir, and creative non-fiction are my primary foci.

Books

  • Making Art Safely: Alternatives in Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Graphic Design and Photography, with artist Merle Spandorfer, and toxicologist Jack Snyder, MD (1993) New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold; acquired by John Wiley & Sons, 1998.

  • Introduction to Visual Literacy, A Guide to the Visual Arts and Communication (1987) Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall; acquired by Pearson, 1996.

Articles (selected 
from more than 300 published)

  • “April 14, 1950” in The Quill Times, (2022): https://www.thequilltimes.com/post/april-14-1950

  • “Going Nude” (2014). Toteson, H., ed. Creativity & Constraint, Universal Table / Wising Up Press, Decatur GA

  • Multiple articles at https://independent.academia.edu/DeborahCurtiss

  • “Bringing Beauty to Life while Optimizing Conditions for Creativity,” (2011) a chapter in Perspectives on Creativity II, L. DellaPietra, ed. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

  • “Some Dreams Come True: Greene Street Artists Corporation/Cooperative,” (1997/1998) 
    Art Matters, December/January

  • “Book for Every Artist,” (1997) Art Matters, May

  • “Small Scale Sculpture” (1984) New Art Examiner, Chicago, IL, March

  • “Third Annual Franklin Town Sculpture Show” (1984) New Art Examiner, Chicago, IL, February

@Deborah Curtiss 2020.  All rights reserved.

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