Contributors

Ann Louise Bardach is an investigative reporter and screenwriter who lives in Santa Barbara. For her story this month, the sequel to her October 1989 V.F. piece, "The Murder Hustle," she traveled to Sardinia, where she obtained an exclusive prison interview with John Hawkins, the third man in what investigators have dubbed "the almost perfect crime."

Leslie Bennetts, who profiles Roe v. Wade attorney Sarah Weddington this month, has written about the abortion debate for nearly twenty years.

Sidney Blumenthal, a senior editor at The New Republic, is covering the presidential election. "Quayle has become the intellectual point man for George Bush," says Blumenthal about his profile this month of the vice president.

Ben Brantley reports regularly from New York, Los Angeles, and Europe.

Rupert Christiansen is opera critic for The Spectator in London. "From this side of the Atlantic," he says of his piece this month, "it's clear that the Americans are producing the hottest and most accomplished opera singers in the world."

Amy Fine Collins, a contributing editor of HG, regularly reports on art, design, and fashion.

Lynn Hirschberg covers Hollywood, the media, and music for V.F. "Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love are the Sid and Nancy of the nineties," she says of her article this month, "but with talent."

Walter Isaacson, an assistant managing editor of Time, is the author of Kissinger: A Biography, excerpted in this issue. The book is out this month from Simon & Schuster in the U.S. and from Faber & Faber in the U.K.

James Kaplan is working on a book about John F. Kennedy International Airport for William Morrow.

Arthur Lubow's biography of Richard Harding Davis, The Reporter Who Would Be King, is just out from Scribner's.

Stephen Schiff,V.F.'s critic-at-large, frequently covers cultural subjects.

Kevin Sessums' play, Blue Suede Gospel, will open at the Mermaid Theatre in London this 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.