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Doon Arbus
Doon Arbus is a writer and the elder daughter of Diane and Allan Arbus.
She is the co-author of the 2011 biographical work, Diane Arbus: A Chronology and has been responsible for the five other books of Arbus photographs. She has also contributed articles and criticism to magazines, including Rolling Stone and The Nation.
Her play, Third Floor, Second Door on the Right, was produced in New York by the International Fringe Festival in 2003.
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