Contributors

Steven Bach'sMarlene Dietrich: Life and Legend will be out this year from William Morrow in the U.S., and from HarperCollins in the U.K. His bestselling book, Final Cut, is an account of the filming of Heaven's Gate.

Peter J. Boyer is writing a book for Random House.

Leslie and Andrew Cockburn have been married for fifteen years. Separately and together, they have covered the related worlds of war, intelligence, and the drug business both in print and on television. Last year they collaborated on Dangerous Liaison: The Inside Story of the U.S. -Israeli Covert Relationship (HarperCollins) and The War We Left Behind, about the aftermath of the Gulf War, for PBS. In an interview for their 1990 documentary Inside the Cartel, a professional murderer in Medellin told Andrew that,' pricewise, "a journalist like you is worth a lot," useful background for researching this month's piece on journalist Manuel de Dios Unanue's assassination.

Bob Colacello is currently covering the European social and cultural scene for V.F. Of this month's piece, he says, "Madame Sukarno is a fascinating character, because her story encompasses so many worlds—politics, society, business, Paris, Tokyo, Indonesia, and now, for better or for worse, Aspen."

Lynn Hirschberg covers Hollywood, the media, and music for V.F.

Jesse Kornbluth'sHighly Confident: The Punishment and Crime of Michael Milken will be out this month from William Morrow. "Late in my research, people on every side of this case began to send me confidential memos, transcripts, and investigative reports," he says of the book, which is excerpted in this issue. "By the time I started writing, the leaks had become torrents, and I had 10,000 pages of previously unseen material."

Maureen Orth visited Ireland twice for this month's profile of President Mary Robinson. "It was striking," she says, "to see the influence and respect this feminist commands and to realize that no one like her yet exists in America."

John Seabrook, who also writes for The New Yorker, is working on a book about patents.

Kevin Sessums' play, Blue Suede Gospel, will open at the Arts Theatre in London's West End in the fall.

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.