David Vaughan is the author of Frederick Ashton and his Ballets (revised edition, 1999) and Merce Cunningham: 50 Years (1997). A former dancer, he trained at the School of American Ballet as well as with Marie Rambert, Audrey de Vos, Antony Tudor, Richard Thomas, and Merce Cunningham. Over the course of his career, he has been a dancer, actor, singer, and choreographer in live performance and on film and television. He was a member of the editorial board of the International Encyclopedia of Dance (1998). Mr. Vaughan has been the archivist for Merce Cunningham Dance Company since 1976. In July 2000, he received the CORD (Congress on Dance Research) Award for Outstanding Leadership in Dance Research, and in September 2001 a New York Dance and Performance Award ("Bessie") for Sustained Achievement.