Phoebe Hoban

{{short description|American journalist}}

Phoebe Hoban is an American journalist perhaps known best for her biographies of the artists Jean Michel Basquiat (Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art, Viking 1998){{cite journal |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/phoebe-hoban/basquiat |title=BASQUIAT: A Quick Killing in Art by Phoebe Hoban |journal=Kirkus Reviews |date=June 15, 1998 |publisher=kirkusreviews.com |accessdate=2014-02-09}} and Alice Neel (Alice Neel: The Art of not Sitting Pretty, St. Martin's Press 2010).{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/books/review/Solomon-t.html?pagewanted=all |title=The Nonconformist |author=Deborah Solomon |author-link=Deborah Solomon |date=December 29, 2010 |newspaper=The New York Times |accessdate=2014-02-09}} Print edition January 2, 2011, p. BR14. Review of Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty. As a print journalist Hoban has penned articles on culture and the arts for Vogue, Vanity Fair, GQ, Harper's Bazaar, New York Magazine, The New York Times, Riot Material Magazine, ARTnews, and numerous other periodicals.{{cite web |url=http://us.macmillan.com/author/phoebehoban |title=Phoebe Hoban |publisher=Macmillan US (us.macmillan.com) |accessdate=2014-02-09}}

She is the daughter of the writer Russell Hoban (1925–2011) and writer and illustrator Lillian Hoban (1925–1998). Her parents divorced in 1975.

Early in the 1980s, Lillian and Phoebe Hoban co-wrote two science fiction books for beginning readers, illustrated by Lillian: Ready-set-robot! (Harper & Row, 1982), reissued as The Messiest Robot in Zone One, and The Laziest Robot in Zone One (Harper & Row, 1983).WorldCat (worldcat.org): {{OCLC|7738092}}; [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18151222 18151222]; [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8865482 8865482]. Retrieved 2015-09-26.