Julie Kavanagh is the author of "Secret Muses: The Life of Frederick Ashton," which won the Dance Perspectives Foundation de la Torre Bueno Prize. She trained in ballet before taking up a career in journalism and has been Arts Editor of "Harpers & Queen, "a dance critic for "The Spectator," and London Editor of both "Vanity Fair" and "The New Yorker," She lives in London with her husband and two sons.