A contributing editor of Travel Leisure and columnist for Avenue, he's written for Vanity Fair, Esquire, GQ, Town & Country, the New York Times and New York, and authored twelve books--novels, biographies and social histories--among them, Unreal Estate, a social history of the estate district of Los Angeles, now in development as an HBO series, Rogues' Gallery, a history and expose of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the critically-acclaimed best-sellers Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women and 740 Park.