Contributors

Marie Brenner,who wrote on Clare Boothe Luce in March, is V.F.'s special correspondent. Her book House of Dreams: The Bingham Family of Louisville was recently published by Random House.

John P. Davidson,a former senior editor at Texas Monthly, is V.F.'s Texas correspondent.

Gerri Hirsheyis a feature writer for The Washington Post Magazine and the author of Nowhere to Run: The Story of Soul Music (Penguin).

Robert Hughesis Time's art critic and the author of the bestseller The Fatal Shore (Vintage).

James G. Niven,a private investor specializing in venture capital, lives in New York City and Southampton. This memoir of his father, David Niven, is his first published article.

Alex Shoumatoffis a staff writer at The New Yorker. His V.F. pieces on Africa will be published this fall in African Madness (Knopf).

Mark Stevensis an art critic for Newsweek and The New Republic. He is also the author of a novel, Summer in the City (Random House).

Christopher Simon Sykes,a photographer and writer based in London, is at work on a book on gardens, Private Landscapes (Clarkson N. Potter).

Gregor von Rezzoristudied and later lived in Vienna. His most recent novel is The Death of My Brother Abel (Viking).

Auberon Waugh, the critic and columnist, is the editor of London's Literary Review. His most recent book in the U.S. is Brideshead Benighted (Little, Brown).