'An Exhibition in Abu Dhabi is a rare happening,' Barbara Hughes wrote in the U.A.E. In 1974, he had an exhibition at McCormick Hall, site of the Princeton University Art Museum, and, in 1975, he had an exhibition in Abu Dhabi, the first exhibition of art created there in the city's history. He had exhibitions in both Kano and Kaduna, Nigeria, and in Karachi, Pakistan. He later studied, at age fifteen, with Bruce Onobrakpeya, one of the leading Nigerian artists of the twentieth century. He began painting at age ten in Libya, studying with a Dutch-born artist, Catharina Baart Stephan. In addition to several cities in the U.S., he lived with his parents during their postings in Baghdad, Iraq Baida, Libya Benghazi, Libya Lagos, Nigeria Karachi, Pakistan Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Muscat, Oman and Amman, Jordan. diplomats George Naifeh and Marion Naifeh in Tehran, Iran, on June 19, 1952. His co-author, partner, and husband, Gregory White Smith, died in 2014 at the age of 62, having lived with a rare brain tumor for four decades.

The Philadelphia Inquirer called the book 'Brilliant and definitive … so absorbing in its narrative drive and so exhaustively detailed that it makes everything that came before seem like trial balloons.' Van Gogh: The Life, which Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times called 'magisterial,' was published in 2011 with a companion website hosting over 6,000 pages of notes. Jackson Pollock: An American Saga was published on December 24, 1989. He is also an artist whose geometric abstractions, many large in scale, have been exhibited widely throughout the world over a period of 45 years. In addition to writing 18 books with Gregory White Smith, Naifeh is a businessman who founded several companies, including Best Lawyers that spawned an industry of professional rankings. Steven Naifeh (born June 19, 1952) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American biographer of both Jackson Pollock and Vincent van Gogh.

The Mormon Murders by Steven Naifeh