Judith Dupré writes books that bridge the worlds of art, photography, and architecture in ways that delight and educate. She has written several works of illustrated nonfiction that have been translated into ten languages, including Skyscrapers (Black Dog & Leventhal/ Workman, 1996); Bridges (Black Dog & Leventhal/Workman, 1997); Churches (HarperCollins, 2001), a New York Times bestseller; and Monuments (Random House, 2007). The books’ unique bindings and page designs call attention to the book as an object to be held and read, and comment on the way people read today.

Born in Providence, Rhode Island, she received degrees in English and Studio Art from Brown University, and subsequently studied at the Open Atelier of Design and Architecture in Manhattan. Currently, she is at Yale University investigating the impact of time, memory, and ritual on architectural meaning. She is a member of the Editorial Board of Faith & Form, the journal of the Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art and Architecture, a professional interest area of the American Institute of Architects. She lives with her family outside of New York City.

She has created innovative educational and identity programs that utilize the visual arts for a variety of community and corporate entities, including the American Indian College Fund, American Museum of Natural History, Catholic Relief Services, FIGG Engineering Group, Fort Belknap Indian Community, Edward James Olmos Productions, and Tapehouse Digital, among others. From 1987 to 1990, she was part of the Olympia & York team that developed the inaugural Arts & Events Program for the public spaces at the World Financial Center (WFC) at Battery Park City in Manhattan. Designed by Cesar Pelli, the WFC represents a unique urban collaboration between developer, architects, planners, city officials, retailers, and artists.

In 2004, the Westchester Arts Council awarded her the Artists Award, the county’s highest cultural honor, citing her as a “champion of the arts and literacy.” In 2003, Churches received the Washington Irving Book Award, selected by the Westchester Library Association as the best nonfiction book of 2001 and 2002. She is a 2003 MacDowell Colony fellow. She has received numerous research grants from the New York State Foundation for the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts. In 1991, she was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship at the D’Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian at the Newberry Library, Chicago, to work with Peter Nabokov, author of the seminal Native American Architecture.

Judith Dupré’s books have been featured in The New York Times; Wall Street Journal; Washington Post; Chicago Tribune; Los Angeles Times; Christian Science Monitor; Associated Press; Atlanta Journal-Constitution; San Francisco Chronicle; Parade Magazine; O, The Oprah Magazine; Kirkus Reviews; Publishers Weekly; ABC/World News Tonight; CBS; The Today Show; CNN; Booklist; School Library Journal; All Things Considered/NPR; WNYC; History Channel; and the Learning Channel, among others.