Contributors

Henry Alford, author of Municipal Bondage, is currently writing a humorous, nonfiction book for Random House.

"Ralph Fiennes is decidedly enigmatic as a person, but as an actor I find him electrifying," says contributing editor Leslie Bennetts. "I can hardly wait to see what he'll do next." Bennetts's profile of Nicole Kidman appeared in the July issue.

"Diane Keaton is astonishingly focused," says Nancy Collins, who interviews notable people as a contributing editor for Vanity Fair and as a special correspondent for ABC News's PrimeTime Live. "In many ways, I think she is beginning the most important part of her career and her personal life."

Special correspondent Dominick Dunne did not write a "Letter from Los Angeles" last month because he was taking part in the successful search for his missing son, Alex, in the mountains of Arizona. He resumes his coverage of the O. J. Simpson trial in this issue.

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Charles Fleming, who chronicled the making and unmaking of the movie Waterworld in the August issue, reports on post-Ovitz life at the most star-studded talent agency in the world, CAA.

Of the subject of his "Cultural Elite" column this month, author Gore Vidal, contributing editor Christopher Hitchens says, "It was a pleasure to interview America's greatest atheist."

Contributing editor Cathy Horyn profiled actor Tim Roth in the September issue.

Elissa Schappell, who writes "Hot Type" for Vanity Fair, is a senior editor at The Paris Review and is working on a collection of short stories.

"In Central Park West, I play a heightened sense of myself," says "Vanities" contributor George Wayne of his cameo role as a larger-than-life magazine writer named G.W. in the new CBS-Darren Star series.