Contributors

David Bailey's book If We Shadows, a compilation of photographs from the past 10 years, is just out from Thames and Hudson. He spends most of his time directing commercials.

Lynn Barber, a V.F. contributing editor who lives in London, writes a weekly column for The Independent on Sunday. She was three times named magazine writer of the year in the British Press Awards and has recently published a collection of interviews, Mostly Men, out in the U.K. from Viking Penguin.

Jonathan Becker's portraits have appeared frequently in V.F. since 1983. He is working on a collection of his photographs for a book and a show.

Leslie Bennetts says of her piece this month, on the battle over Gardiners Island, "I have always been fascinated by family feuds, because of the intense emotions they arouse. The rich historical dimensions of the Gardiner saga make it particularly compelling.

Andrew and Leslie Cockburn traveled to Medellín for their piece on Pablo Escobar in this issue. They have been covering what Colombians call "the Labyrinth"—the country's mix of drugs, politics, and violence—since 1989.

Bob Colacello is the author of Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up (HarperPerennial).

Michel Comte, the photographer, is working on a collection of photographs for a book. He contributes frequently to Italian Vogue.

Jason Epstein is Random House's editorial director.

Rupert Everett, the actor, is the author of the novel Hello Darling, Are You Working? (Morrow).

Jesse Kornbluth is writing the screenplay of his book Highly Confident: The Crime and Punishment of Michael Milken (Morrow) for Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions. The subject of his piece in this issue, the scandal at Exeter, "seems to be the story of private behavior between two individuals that somehow ended up in a federal courtroom and the tabloid press. In the process, it's come to evoke a primal fear: that lurking inside every homosexual teacher is a predator."

Roger Rosenblatt, who joins V.F. as a contributing editor, is working on a collection for Random House of his journalistic pieces from the past 17 years.

Kathleen Tynan, the London-based novelist and screenwriter, is the author of The Life of Kenneth Tynan (Morrow), a biography of her late husband. She is writing two novels for Random House.