Kathryn Davis has received the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Throughout her long career, Carrington published novels, stories, and plays, in addition to making paintings, sculptures, and tapestries. Nearly mad with grief and terror, she was thrown into a lunatic asylum in Spain, and, after escaping, married a Mexican diplomat, fleeing Europe for New York City then Mexico City, where she lived for the rest of her life. After Ernst was taken from their home to a Nazi internment camp in 1940, Carrington fled France. Four years later, she ran off with Max Ernst and became a darling of the art world in Paris: serving guests hair omelets at one party, arriving naked to another.
She was born to a wealthy English family in 1917, expelled from two convents as a girl, and presented to the king's court in 1933. Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) was a key figure in the Surrealist movement and an artist of remarkable individuality.
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