Perhaps best known as the long-suffering wife of Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner is now, finally, being recognized as one of the 20th centuryβs modernist masters. In Lee Krasner, author Gail Levin gives us an engrossing biography of the painterβso memorably portrayed in the movie Pollack by actor Marcia Gay Harden, who won an Academy Award for her performanceβa firebrand and trailblazer for womenβs rights as well as an exceptional artist who led a truly fascinating life.