Contributors

Jonathan Becker is working on a collection of his photographs for a book and a show.

Joan Juliet Buck, a V.F. contributing editor, is the film critic for Vogue.

Carol Felsenthal's profile of former Washington Post Company chairman Katharine Graham is excerpted from Power, Privilege, and the Post: The Katharine Graham Story, to be published this month by Putnam.

Stephen Fried's first book, Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia, excerpted in this issue, will be published in the U.S. in April by Pocket Books, and in the U.K. in June by Simon & Schuster. A Philadelphia-based investigative journalist, he says, "I saw Gia's life as a chance to write about everything from the price of prettiness to dysfunctional family values to the politics of AIDS."

Anthony Holden is the author of two biographies of the Prince of Wales, Prince Charles and King Charles III, which were best-sellers on both sides of the Atlantic. He has also written a biography of Laurence Olivier (Macmillan) and Big Deal (Viking), the story of his year as a professional poker player who ranked 90th at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. He is at work on a biography of Tchaikovsky for Random House.

Edward Klein is writing a screenplay on the life of Ingrid Bergman for Columbia Pictures.

Luisita Lopez Torregrosa is working on a book for W. W. Norton.

Frederic Raphael, a novelist and screenwriter, is the author, most recently, of After the War (Viking), and A Double Life (Orion Books), which will be out in the U.K. this spring.

Robert Risko is collecting his work for a book to be published by Abrams.

Snowdon's newest collection of photographs, Public Appearances 1987-1991, is just out in the U.S. from Vendome Press. Of his photograph of Emma Thompson in this issue, he says, "My thanks to the painter Velazquez (15991660) because it's a complete rip-off, a pastiche, of him."

Mark Stevens is at work on a biography of Willem de Kooning.

Matthew Tyrnauer, who wrote this month's Spotlight on the Clinton administration, is an editor of V.F.'s "Vanities" section.