Michael Gross

Provocative cultural journalist andNew York Timesbestselling authorMichael Grossis currently acontributing editor atTravel & Leisure. He haspreviously held positions at theNew York Times,New York,Radar,George, andEsquire.His writing has appeared inVanity Fair,Interview,Details,Elle,Architectural Digest,American Photo, Town & Country, andCosmopolitan, and he has also written for theWashington Post, theInternationalHerald Tribune, theVillage Voice, theSan FranciscoChronicle, and theChicago Tribune. He has profiled subjects from John F. Kennedy Jr. to Greta Garbo, from Richard Gere to Ivana Trump, and he has written on subjects such as divorce, plastic surgery, Greenwich Village, and sex in the nineties. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellingModel: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women(1995), which was published in eight countries;My Generation(2000), a biography of the Baby Boom generation;Genuine Authentic: The Real Life of Ralph Lauren(2003); and740 Park(2005). He currently lives in New York City.