CONTRIBUTORS

Javier Arroyuelo is an Argentinean playwright living in Paris. He writes on fashion for French Vogue, and previously coauthored a column for Interview. He is at work on a novel about "the Paris fashion jungle."

Susan Cheever is the author of three novels and Home Before Dark, her memoir of her father, John Cheever. She has been a writer for Newsweek, and her articles have appeared widely in newspapers and in other magazines.

Alain Elkann is a bestselling Italian novelist and the Paris correspondent for the Italian magazine Nuovi Argomenti. His articles and short fiction have been published in Vogue, Le Monde, and Corriere della Sera.

Veronica Geng's satirical pieces appear often in The New Yorker, and her reviews of books and films have been published elsewhere. Partners, her collection of humor, is now out in paperback from Harper & Row.

Antony Lambton'sElizabeth & Alexandra, a historical novel about royal sisters in czarist Russia, is due from E. P. Dutton in the spring. Lord Lambton, the author also of Snow and Other Stories, has lived in Italy since 1973.

Robert Lenzner is the Boston Globe's New York correspondent and a contributor to The Economist. His book, Getty: The Richest Man in the World, is due this winter from Little, Brown and, in Britain, from Hutchinson.

Rafael Lopez-Sanchez lives in New York and Paris with his wife, Paloma Picasso. He has collaborated with Javier Arroyuelo in writing plays, articles for French Vogue, and the former Interview column "Out in Paris."

David Mamet's play Glengarry Glen Ross won a 1984 Pulitzer Prize. The Shawl, excerpted in this issue, will be performed in New York this fall. Mr. Mamet is writing a screenplay about Eliot Ness and the Untouchables.

Auberon Waugh is a columnist for the British magazines Private Eye and The Spectator. His books include novels, memoirs, collected essays, and The Last Word: An Eyewitness Account of the Trial of Jeremy Thorpe.