CONTRIBUTORS

Marie Brenner,Vanity Fair's special correspondent, wrote our July story on Huntington Hartford. She is at work on a book for Random House on the Louisville Courier-Journal publishing family, the Binghams.

Dominick Dunne, a contributing editor of Vanity Fair, wrote the best-selling novel The Two Mrs. Grenvilles. This month. Crown will publish his collected Vanity Fair articles as a book, Fatal Charms and Other Tales of Today.

Michael Gross is a columnist for the New York Times style page. He wrote about photographer Bruce Weber for the June Vanity Fair; his articles have appeared in Saturday Review, Harpers & Queen, and elsewhere.

Robert Hughes is Time's art critic and author of The Shock of the New, which was adapted as a 1981 PBS series. His book The Fatal Shore, about the settlement of Australia, is due next month from Knopf.

Annie Leibovitz,Vanity Fair's contributing photographer, took five of V.F.'s 1986 cover portraits, including those of Ron Reagan, Cher, and David Bowie. Annie Leibovitz: Photographs is a collection of her work.

David Mamet's essay in this issue is from his Writing in Restaurants, due this month from Viking. His screenplay The Untouchables is being filmed by Paramount. His play Glengarry Glen Ross won a 1984 Pulitzer Prize.

John Richardson, a contributing editor of Vanity Fair, wrote the August issue's story about photographer Cecil Beaton. The author of books on Manet and Braque, he is writing a biography of Picasso, for Random House.

Michael Shnayerson, a contributing editor of Vanity Fair, wrote the September issue's profile of publisher Arthur Carter. He is working on a biography of writer Irwin Shaw, to be published by Putnam's.

Paul Theroux's novels include O-Zone, out from Putnam's, and The Mosquito Coast, the filming of which is the subject of his column in this issue. Also author of travel books and short stories, Mr. Theroux is currently in China.