CONTRIBUTORS

James Atlas is a contributing editor of Vanity Fair and the author of Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet. His novel, The Great Pretender—set in Chicago, at Harvard, and at Oxford—is due from Atheneum in May.

Stephen Birmingham's books of social history include Our Crowd: The Great Jewish Families of New York. His latest novel, The LeBaron Secret, about a California wine dynasty, is out this month from Little, Brown.

Marie Brenner,Vanity Fair's special correspondent, wrote the January issue's feature on presidential hopeful Jack Kemp. She is the author of two collections of essays, Intimate Distance and Going Hollywood.

Dominick Dunne is a contributing editor of Vanity Fair and the author of the best-selling novel The Two Mrs. Grenvilles. His most recent article for the magazine was the December cover story about Elizabeth Taylor.

Doug Ireland, previously a columnist and senior editor at the Soho News, lives in Paris and writes for French and American publications. He was in 1983 a guest columnist for Liberation, the subject of his article here.

Peter Plagens's essays are collected in his book Moonlight Blues: An Artist's Art Criticism, due this summer from UMI Research Press. A painter, he shows his work at the Nancy Hoffman Gallery in New York.

Luisa Valenzuela's books include The Lizard's Tail, a novel, and Other Weapons, a collection of novellas. A former editor of the Sunday supplement of the Buenos Aires newspaper La Nation, she now lives in New York.

Daniel Voll recently spent seven months traveling in South Africa. The recipient of a Lyndhurst Foundation grant, he is now living in North Carolina and writing a novel set in Wisconsin during the Vietnam War years.

Leon Wieseltier is the literary editor of The New Republic and a contributing editor of Vanity Fair. Formerly known in this magazine as Tristan Vox, author of the "Mind's Eye" column, he sheds his disguise with this issue.