The book's essays bring together the expertise of Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, former Director of the Joseph Cornell Study Center; the compelling commentary of Walter Hopps, art dealer, museum curator and director and the artist's personal friend; the wide-ranging scholarship of Richard Vine, author and managing editor of Art in America; and the sensitivity of Robert Lehrman, a leading Cornell collector whose firsthand experience lends this publication its distinctive intimacy.

Biographies of the authors are available below:

- Lynda Roscoe Hartigan

- Walter Hopps

- Richard Vine

- Robert Lehrman