Samantha Peale is the author of the novel “The American Painter Emma Dial.”
The New York Times called it a “witty and impressively observed debut novel,” adding that “Samantha Peale has given us what is probably the first novel narrated by a studio assistant in New York in the 21st century … Emma Dial, in the end, is a stirring reminder of the countless young artists stuck in captivity as assistants, hoping their gifts will extricate them.”
The Los Angeles Times called it “a graceful personal journey, an intimate snapshot of a young woman at a seminal point in her life, on the brink of either discovering her true self or becoming unhinged.”
Peale graduated from The New School and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two sons.
