Contributors

Henry Alford'sMunicipal Bondage (Random House) is just out.

Martin Filler frequently writes on art, architecture, and design. He wrote about painter Lucian Freud in the November '93 V.F.

Stephen Fried's book, Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia (Pocket Books), excerpted in the February '93 V.F., will be out in paperback next month.

Christopher Hitchens is the author of For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports (Verso), Prepared for the Worst (Hill and Wang), and Blood, Class, and Nostalgia: AngloAmerican Ironies (Farrar, Straus & Giroux).

Cathy Horyn, the fashion editor of The Washington Post, has been covering fashion for the last seven years, the past three at the Post.

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John Irving's eighth novel, A Son of the Circus, will be published by Random House in September.

Annie Leibovitz's work is on exhibit this month at Montreal's Museum of Fine Arts and at the National Portrait Gallery in London.

Steven Meisel's photographs have also appeared in American, British, French, and Italian Vogue.

Michael Shnayerson says of his profile of Jodie Foster, our cover subject this month, "What you notice right off is how seasoned she is: wise, un-neurotic, winningly direct. But not confessional, and never simple. You leave with a million good quotes and yet no sure sense of the woman behind them, other than that she is very smart and has just outsmarted you."

Mark Stevens is at work, with Annalyn Swan, on a biography of Willem de Kooning for Doubleday.

Michael Thomas is a columnist for The New York Observer. His sixth novel, Black Money, will be out from Crown next month.