Lynne Lawner is a poet, art historian and lecturer who has published six books.
An author and independent scholar who lived in Italy many years, she currently resides in New York City.

Dr. Lawner, a graduate of Wellesley with a PhD from Columbia, has been a Henry Fellow at Cambridge University, a Fulbright Scholar in Italy, a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, an American Association of University Women Fellow, a Fellow of the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (Villa "I Tatti"), a Bunting Institute Fellow, a Gladys Delmas Fellow in Venice, and a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.  She has been a Visiting Professor at UCLA and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She has lectured at Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Vassar, Connecticut College for Women, Indiana University, and many museums and institutions including Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, the Bard Center for the Decorative Arts, the Chicago Art Institute, the Dayton Art Institute, the Italian Cultural Institutes in New York, Chicago, and Washington, the New York Harvard Club, and the National Arts Club.

Dr. Lawner’s articles on France, Italy, and Switzerland have appeared in "The Sophisticated Traveler", "New York Times Sunday Travel Section", and "Food and Wine", often accompanied by her photos.  Her book reviews appear regularly in "The World and I", "New York Times Book Review", "Philadelphia Inquirer", and "Los Angeles Times". Her translations have appeared in many anthologies and journals including Penguin Book of Women Poets, Modern European Poets, "Gradiva".

She is an active, voting member of the National Book Critics Circle; a member of the American PEN Center Translation Committee; and a former judge of the Modern Language Association non-fiction book prize.  She has won prizes for her poetry, published in two collections by Atlantic and Harper’s (Wedding Night of A Nun; Triangle Dream). She has been a resident at Yaddo. She is also the author of a biography (Farrar Straus-Noonday).

Dr. Lawner speaks five languages and has appeared frequently on television in both the United States and abroad. The novelist Umberto Eco presented her courtesans book at USIS in Milan, and an international festival dedicated to the Adriatic Sea made that book its theme, offering a costume exhibit.