Brian D'Amato is an American author and sculptor. He received a BA from Yale University and an MA from the City University of New York. In the 1990s, D’Amato showed sculptures and installations at galleries and museums including the Whitney Museum, the Wexner Center for the Arts, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art. He has written for several magazines, including Harper's Bazaar, Index Magazine, Vogue, Flash Art, and Artforum, and he has taught art and art history at the City University of New York, Ohio State University, and Yale University. D'Amato's 1992 novel, Beauty, a thriller about cosmetic surgery, was translated into several languages. His next novel, a trilogy tentatively titled In the Courts of the Sun, will be published by Dutton beginning in the fall of 2007. D'Amato is the son of Northwestern Law professor Anthony D'Amato and mystery novelist Barbara D'Amato.
