Steven Naifeh

Quick Facts

Full Name	Steven Naifeh
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	Jun 19, 1952(1952-06-19)
Age	72
Country	United States
Birth City	Tehran
Horoscope	Gemini

Steven Naifeh Biography

Steven Naifeh is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on June 19, 1952 in Tehran, United States. Naifeh was the son of U.S. diplomats George Naifeh and Marion Naifeh in Tehran, Iran on June 19 1952. Naifeh’s father was of Lebanese origin. Apart from various cities in the U.S., he lived with his parents throughout their deployments to Baghdad, Iraq; Baida, Libya; Benghazi, Libya; Lagos, Nigeria; Karachi, Pakistan; Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; Muscat, Oman as well as Amman, Jordan.

Naifeh’s companion Smith had been diagnosed as having a rare brain tumor 1975. It caused 13 brain surgeries, as in addition to treatment with nuclear medicine and radiation and new chemotherapeutic regimens. His quest for the most cutting-edge medical treatment was highlighted in the CBS show “60 Minutes” and recounted in their book Making Miracles Happen. Together with Smith He also co-founded Best Doctors, a company that aims to help people with not diagnosed or apparent intractable medical ailments discover the most effective treatment across the planet. While they sold the business in 2000, the company is still serving over 30 million customers across the globe.

Naifeh also wrote several how-to books to fund the writing of Pollock, including (with Michael Morgenstern), the best-seller How to Make Love to a Woman, which sold several million copies in 29 languages. He wrote several true crime books, including the bestseller The Mormon Murders in 1988 and Final Justice in 1993. The latter was nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Fact Crime.

Time Magazine wrote: “Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, whose 1989 biography of Jackson Pollock won the Pulitzer Prize, have written this generation’s definitive portrait of the great Dutch post-Impressionist. … Their most important achievement is to produce a reckoning with van Gogh’s occasional ‘madness’ that doesn’t lose sight of the lucidity and intelligence – the profound sanity – of his art.” The Boston Globe wrote: “Now, at last, with ‘Van Gogh: The Life’ by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, we have what could very well be the definitive biography … And how pleased we should be that Naifeh and Smith have rendered so exquisitely and respectfully van Gogh’s short, intense, and wholly interesting life.”

He began painting at the age of 10 in Libya and was studying at the studio of a artist from Holland Catharina Baart Stephan. He continued to study at the age of 15 alongside Bruce Onobrakpeya, one of the top Nigerian artistes of the 20th century. There were exhibitions of his work in Kano in Kano and Kaduna, Nigeria, and in Karachi, Pakistan. The year 1974 was the time he hosted an exhibit in McCormick Hall, site of the Princeton University Art Museum, and in 1975 the artist held an exhibit of his work in Abu Dhabi, the first exhibition of artwork created in the city within the city’s history. “An Exhibition in Abu Dhabi is a rare happening,” Barbara Hughes wrote in the U.A.E. News. “But an exhibition of work mainly created in Abu Dhabi is probably unique.”

Steven Naifeh Net Worth

Steven Naifeh is one of the richest Writer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Steven Naifeh 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Steven Naifeh (born June 19 1952) is the Pulitzer Prize-winning American biographer of Jackson Pollock and Vincent van Gogh. Alongside authoring 18 books together with Gregory White Smith, Naifeh is also a businessman who established numerous businesses which include Best Lawyers that spawned an industry of professional ranking.

Naifeh graduated with a summa cum laude at the St. Andrew’s Academy situated in Middletown, Delaware, in 1970, and Princeton University in 1974. He graduated from Harvard Law School in the year 1977 and earned a master’s in fine art, also from Harvard in 1979. His thesis from his undergraduate studies on New York Art World was published by Princeton University in 1976. In addition, the Ph.D. dissertation on the artist Gene Davis was published in 1982.

Together with Smith, Naifeh founded the legal publishing company Best Lawyers in 1981 which published The Best Lawyers in America, a peer-review list, in

1983. That list went on to become Best Lawyers, a global network linking lawyers and clients. In 2013, Best Lawyers ranked 74,965 lawyers representing 18,034 law firms in 75 countries. In 2009, the company partnered with U.S. News to produce rankings of law firms and in 2014 it gave out 61,138 rankings to 11,681 law firms in 120 practice areas.

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Naifeh received honorary doctorates from the University of South Carolina Aiken in 1998 and the Juilliard School in 2012.

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Steven Ranked on the list of most popular Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Steven Naifeh celebrates birthday on June 19 of every year.

Since 2009, Naifeh has served as co-chairman of Juilliard in Aiken Festival, an annual performing arts festival in Aiken. The 2014, Festival culminated in an early-music performance of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion that was presented not only in Aiken but in Spivey Hall in Atlanta and Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center.