Contributors

Philip Bennett covered El Salvador for four years as Latin America correspondent of The Boston Globe. He is writing a book about Peru.

Leslie Bennetts was for ten years a reporter at The New York Times, where she met John Duka in 1978.

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

Gabriel la De Ferrari, the author of A Cloud on Sand (Knopf), is working on her second novel. She is an art collector and was formerly a curator at the Busch-Reisinger Museum.

Christopher Dickey, Paris bureau chief of Newsweek, is the author most recently of Expats: Travels in Arabia from Tripoli to Teheran (Atlantic Monthly Press).

Martin Filler writes on art, architecture, and design.

Mark MacNamara lives in San Francisco. He writes for USA Today, Los Angeles Magazine, and the San Francisco Chronicle.

Maureen Orth has written for Newsweek, New York, and Vogue, and reported for NBC News.

John Richardson is working on a four-part Picasso biography, the first volume of which will be published by Random House in February.

Kevin Sessums, V.F.'s Fanfair editor, frequently profiles entertainment figures.

Michael Shnayerson, author of Irwin Shaw: A Biography (Putnam), is a consulting editor of Conde Nast Traveler.

Mark Stevens, V.F.'s art critic, is at work on a biography of Willem de Kooning.

Edmund White, the author of five novels, is writing a biography of Jean Genet.

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