Contributors

Ann Louise Bardach is an author, screenwriter, and investigative reporter who lives in Santa Barbara.

Leslie Bennetts has covered the women's movement for twenty years for a variety of newspapers and magazines, and has known Gloria Steinem, the subject of her piece this month, since the early 1970s.

Peter J. Boyer is working on a nonfiction book for Random House.

Richard M. Clurman spent more than twenty years at Time Inc. as a writer, reporter, chief of worldwide Time-Life correspondents, and senior editorial executive. He is the author of To the End of Time: The Seduction and Conquest of a Media Empire, to be published next month by Simon & Schuster, and excerpted in this issue. "The high-stakes corporate battle for control of Time Inc. not only resulted in the biggest media merger ever," he says, "but also brought into play clashing cultures and personalities, resulting in Time Warner, an odd corporate couple with access to more minds and emotions than any other commercial enterprise on earth."

Fredric Dannen'sHit Men: Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business (Vintage) won the twenty-fourth annual ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for excellence in music journalism. Of this month's piece, he says, "It's natural for journalists on the crime beat to be overly sympathetic to prosecutors, and it's very easy to be co-opted by them. That's the only explanation as to why this story hasn't been told before."

Trip Gabriel writes about crime, sports, and film.

Anthony Haden-Guest spent part of his childhood in France. "I was far more educated by French films than by Hollywood ones," he says of his story this month. ''I grew up equally fascinated by the movie world and the art world. In Claude Berri, I found a rare figure who moves in both."

Lynn Hirschberg covers the business of Hollywood and the media for V.F. Of Lili Zanuck, her subject this month, she says, "Women in Hollywood interest me, because Hollywood is still a boys' club. By directing her first feature, Zanuck has penetrated that world."

Janies Kaplan is working on a book about John F. Kennedy International Airport for William Morrow.

Edward Klein is writing a book about the Etan Patz case, which he covered in the June 1991 V.F.

Cal McCrystal, a Belfast-born journalist, is a special-features writer and columnist for the London Independent. He has written extensively on terrorism and other crimes of violence.