Robert Kipniss is a well-respected artist whose paintings and mezzotints are in the permanent collections of museums world-wide (The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum, both in NYC; The Tate and The British Museum, both in London:The Cleveland Museum, the New Orleans Museum of Art, and more than 70 other museums.) He has written a memoir published by the University Press of New England, and a volume of poetry and drawings published by the Hudson Hills Press. Born in Brooklyn in 1931, SHINE is his first work of fiction.