CONTRIBUTORS

Peter Ackroyd is the author of Ezra Pound and His World and The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde, among other books. His T. S. Eliot: A Life will be published by Simon and Schuster in November. He is at work on his third novel.

Joan Juliet Buck writes about the European scene for Vanity Fair, Vogue, and Egoiste, and is the author of a novel, The Only Place to Be. Her most recent collaboration with Helmut Newton was for the March Vanity Fair.

Don DeLillo’s eight novels include Players and The Names. He won a 1984 American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters award, and is now at work on two one-act plays. His latest novel will be published by Viking in early 1985.

Dominick Dunne was an executive producer for Twentieth Century Fox TV and vice president of Four Star Studio. His films include The Panic in Needle Park, Play It as It Lays, and The Boys in the Band. His first novel was The Winners.

Duane Michals’s photographs have been collected in twelve books. Sleep and Dream, the most recent, will be published by Lustrum Press in October. In December he will have a retrospective at the Museum of Modem Art, Oxford.

Frank Rose has written on subjects ranging from the Pentagon to the Christian surfer movement in California. His book Into the Heart of the Mind, on computer research at Berkeley, will be published by Harper & Row in September.

Richard Selzer teaches surgery and “Literature and Medicine” at the Yale School of Medicine, and has a practice in New Haven. His five books of essays and short fiction include Letters to a Young Doctor and Confessions of a Knife.

Rex Weiner is a magazine journalist and the co-author of Woodstock Census, a book surveying the effects of the 1970s on the ’60s generation. He wrote about polo for Vanity Fair because, he says, “I like the ponies.” He lives in Los Angeles.