CONTRIBUTORS

Janet Coleman, who writes and performs in collaboration with David Dozer, has written about comedy for New York and the Village Voice. She is currently working on a book entitled Funny Business, to be published by Knopf.

Amy Hempel, who is a member of Gordon Lish's fiction workshop at Columbia University, divides her time between New York and San Francisco. Her first collection of short stories will be published by Knopf next year.

George Plimpton, editor of The Paris Review, worked with Jean Stein on Edie. His longtime fascination with pyrotechnics is the subject of his new book, Fireworks, which Doubleday will publish in September.

V. S. Pritchett, the eminent British man of letters best known for his short fiction, has written biographies of Turgenev and Balzac, travel essays, literary criticism, and five novels. His most recent book is More Collected Stories.

John Richardson, art historian and former head of Christie's in the United States, is consulting editor of House & Garden and an art adviser to Bill Blass. Author of books on Manet, Braque, and Picasso, he is now writing a biography of Picasso.

Frangoise Sagan was eighteen when she burst onto the French literary scene with her first book, Bonjour Tristesse. She has since written essays, plays, filmscripts, and a dozen other novels, including Aimez-Vous Brahms. . . and Les Violons Parfois. ..

Gail Sheehy, author of the best-selling books Passages and Pathfinders, writes frequently for The New York Times Magazine and Parade. Her latest project is a book about survivors.

Scott Spencer is the author of Preservation Hall and Endless Love, the critically acclaimed novel about obsessive adolescent passion. His new book, Waking the Dead, will be published by Knopf next year.