ROSA LOWINGER is a Cuban-born American writer and art conservator, and the author of Tropicana Nights: The Life and Times of the Legendary Cuban Nightclub y Promising Paradise: Cuban Allure, American Seduction. She is also the founder and current vice president of RLA Conservation, one of the largest woman-owned art and architectural conservation firms in the United States. A fellow of the American Institute for Conservation, the Association for Preservation Technology, and the American Academy in Rome, Lowinger writes regularly for popular and academic media about conservation, historic preservation, the visual arts, and Cuba.