Contributors

Leslie Bennetts has covered politics and the arts for V.F. “I found Owen Lipstein’s story particularly compelling, because it’s not just about one individual’s rise and fall,” she says of this month’s profile. ‘‘Lipstein was the quintessential yuppie, and his saga is a good metaphor both for the transition from the eighties to the hard times of the nineties, and also for the whole babyboom generation coming to terms with the responsibilities of adulthood.”

Harry Benson’s collection of photographs People/Harry Benson (Chronicle Books) will be out this fall.

Joan Juliet Buck profiles artists and writers for V.F. She is at work on her third novel.

Nancy Collins is the author of Hard to Get: Fast Talk and Rude Questions Along the Interview Trail (Random House).

Martin Filler writes about art, architecture, and design.

Robert I. Friedman is writing a book about the West Bank settlers’ movement for Random House. He is the author of The False Prophet: Rabbi Meir Kahane—From F.B.I. Informant to Knesset Member (Lawrence Hill Books).

Stephen Schiff,V.F.’s critic-at-large, covers film, theater, books, ballet, and other cultural subjects. He is a film critic for National Public Radio and lives in New York.

Kevin Sessums,V.F.’s Fanfair editor, frequently covers entertainment figures.

Sally Bedell Smith’sIn All His Glory: The Life of William S. Paley will be out in paperback from Touchstone this fall.

Guy Trebay, a columnist for The Village Voice, is finishing a novel.

James Wolcott has written for Harper’s, The New Republic, and the London Observer.

Firooz Zahedi is an L. A.-based V.F. contributing photographer.