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Michael Gross (American writer)

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Michael Robert Gross is an American author, journalist and editor whose work focuses on the American upper class.

Early life[edit]

Gross has a B.A. in History from Vassar College.[1]

Career[edit]

Early in his career, Michael Gross wrote about rock music for magazines. From 1973, his work appeared primarily in Crawdaddy!, the New Musical Express, Zoo World, Rock, Club, Circus and Swank.[2] In addition to writing features for Circus magazine's sister publication, Circus Raves, during the mid 1970s,[3] he served as editor-in-chief of Rock in 1976 and 1977. Gross was the editor of the Fire Island News, a weekly newspaper in a New York summer colony, in 1978. He then began covering fashion photography for Photo District News and subsequently wrote the column "Fashion Statements" for Manhattan, Inc., a short-lived business magazine. In 1985, he went to work for The New York Times, writing about fashion in feature stories and a weekly column, "Notes on Fashion". In 1988, he became a contributing editor of New York magazine, covering fashion and the world of the rich and famous.

In 2000, he was briefly a senior editor of George, a political magazine. In 2002, he wrote a gossip column, "The Word", for the New York Daily News. From 2002 until 2010, he edited the written content of Bergdorf Goodman Magazine.[4] He worked for Crain's New York Business as a columnist from 2010 to 2012.[5]

Gross was also the real estate editor and a monthly columnist for Avenue magazine, its editor-in-chief from October 2016 until March 2019, and a contributing editor of Travel and Leisure magazine from 1997 until 2014.[citation needed] In 2015, he was named a contributing editor of Departures. In addition to The New York Times and New York, he has written for Esquire, GQ, Vanity Fair, and Town & Country.[6]

Gross is the author of the bestsellers Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women and 740 Park: The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building. He has also written books on the Baby Boom, the fashion designer Ralph Lauren, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and estates in Los Angeles. In 2014, Gross published a book on the luxury condominium building 15 Central Park West, with the title House of Outrageous Fortune.[7] It reached number 20 on the New York Times Non-Fiction Best Seller list.[8]

In July 2016, Gross published Focus: The Secret, Sexy, Sometimes Sordid World of Fashion Photographers through Simon & Schuster.[citation needed] His next book “Flight of the WASP: The Rise, Fall and Future of America’s Original Ruling Class,” about a dozen prominent Colonial American families over 400 years, will be published in November 2023 by Atlantic Monthly Press.[citation needed]

Personal life[edit]

Gross is married to Barbara Hodes.[9] His sister, the late Jane Gross, a reporter and bureau chief at The New York Times, and their father, Milton Gross, a syndicated sports columnist for the New York Post, were also authors.[1]

Works[edit]

Film adaptations[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Pranay Gupte (2005-11-03). "Lunch at The Four Seasons with: Michael Gross". New York Sun.
  2. ^ "Michael Gross". Rock's Backpages. Retrieved May 28, 2015.
  3. ^ "Circus Raves". Rock's Backpages. Retrieved May 28, 2015.
  4. ^ Mgross.com
  5. ^ "Michael Gross, Columnist - Staff Profile". Crain's New York Business. Archived from the original on 19 May 2013. Retrieved 11 July 2022.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b Who's Who 2009 Archived 2013-06-29 at archive.today
  7. ^ Elise Knutsen (2012-01-10). "Michael Gross Is Not Writing The Same Book Twice". New York Observer.
  8. ^ "Best Sellers". The New York Times. 2014-04-06.
  9. ^ Greenberg, Julee (3 May 2007). "After 5 Years, Bibelot Designer Set to Add New Line". Women's Wear Daily. Retrieved 11 July 2022.

External links[edit]

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