Contributors

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

Ben Brantley reports regularly from New York, Los Angeles, and Europe. He first met Zoran, the subject of his piece this month, twelve years ago as an editor at WWD. "The designer," he says, "remains as refreshingly obdurate and perverse as ever.

Joan Juliet Buck profiles artists and writers for V.F. The author of the novels The Only Place to Be and Daughter of the Swan, she is at work on a third book.

Dominick Dunne, the author of several best-selling novels and collections of nonfiction, was one of 1991's Literary Lions at the New York Public Library. His second collection of V.F. pieces, The Mansions of Limbo, is out from Crown.

Lynn Hirschberg covers the business of Hollywood and the media for V.F. "At forty-six," she says of Goldie Hawn, her subject this month, "she is working more now than she ever has in the past. I found that interesting."

Miriam Horn is a senior editor at U.S. News & World Report and has contributed to The New Republic, Graphis, and Smithsonian. "Having lived in both the natural canyons of the West and the manmade canyons of Manhattan," she says of her piece in this issue, "I had long been intrigued by the schizophrenia of Antoine Predock's architecture, by its mixture of pastoral purity and urban raunch."

Edward Klein frequently covers the media for V.F. He is writing a book about the hunt for the kidnapper of Etan Patz. "What struck me most about the Robert Maxwell story," he says of this month's piece, "was not the financial collapse of his empire, but the effect his death had on those he left behind—his wife and children, who knew so little about the man who created their privileged life."

Ron Rosenbaum'sTravels with Dr. Death and Other Unusual Investigations is out from Viking Penguin.

Kevin Sessums, V.F.'s Fanfair editor, profiles entertainment figures. He is writing a novel, Porterhouse, to be published by Random House.

Mark Stevens frequently covers art for V.F. He is at work on a biography of Willem de Kooning.

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