Deborah Weisgall has written for many major publications, including The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Fortune, The New Yorker, and especially The New York Times. She has written about important artists and notorious figures in the art world. Her cover articles for the Times Magazine include the piece that revealed the complicated battles over the estate of Pablo Picasso, and stories about the New York City Ballet under George Balanchine and after his death. She has also written profiles of Marguerite Yourcenar, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Peter Serkin, and Thomas Krens, when his plans for the expansion of the Guggenheim were just a titanium gleam in his eye. She has written about installation artists and interpreters of Mozart, Rembrandt and photographers of ice fishing houses. She has published poetry in Poetry and The Atlantic. Her first novel, Still Point, was about dancers, and she has written a memoir, A Joyful Noise, about growing up in a musical family, with a grandfather who was a cantor and a father who was a composer. 
