Michael Gross (journalist)

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Michael Gross (born July 16, 1952 in New York City ) is an American writer and journalist .

education

Until 1970, Gross attended South Side High School in Rockville Center - the same school that Howard Stern would later graduate from. Gross then studied at Vassar College , where he did his BA in history.

Works

His most recent book Rogues' Gallery: The Secret History of the Moguls and the Money That Made the Metropolitan Museum , published in May 2009 by Broadway Books, is an unauthorized social history of the Metropolitan Museum of Art . The FAS wrote: "His book is hushed up."

Prior to that, Gross published 740 Park Avenue: The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building (Broadway Books, 2005), Genuine Authentic: The Real Life of Ralph Lauren ( HarperCollins , 2002) and My Generation: Fifty Years of Sex, Drugs, Rock, Revolution , Glamor, Greed, Valor, Faith and Silicon Chips (Cliff Street Books, 2000). His work Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women (William Morrow, 1995) appeared on the New York Times bestseller list .

Gross writes regularly for Travel and Leisure magazine ; he was guest editor for the blog gawker.com and a columnist for the philanthropic magazine Contribute . Gross wrote frequently for The New York Times , New York , Esquire , GQ , Vanity Fair , Town & Country, and The Times . At the beginning of his career, Gross wrote about rock music and was editor in chief of Rock Magazine . In 1978 he was the editor of Fire Island News , a weekly newspaper in a New York summer colony. He then began reporting on fashion photography for Photo District News , and eventually wrote the Fashion Statements column for Manhattan, Inc. , a short-lived trade magazine. After years in fashion journalism, he covered the world of the rich and famous for New York magazine . In 2000 he was brief editor in charge of the political magazine George ; In 2002 he wrote the gossip column "The Word" for the New York Daily News . Since 2003 he has been an editor for Bergdorf Goodman Magazine .

Gross is married to fashion designer Barbara Hodes and has lived in Manhattan , one block south of Central Park , for years .

family

His sister Jane Gross is a former reporter for the New York Times , where he also worked as a reporter and columnist. Her father Milton Gross was also a journalist and writer.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Fine arts, fine crooks" - Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , Society: Page 51 of November 22, 2009
  2. ↑ Who's Who 2000
  3. ^ Gross, point blank , New York Post, December 8, 2011, accessed March 28, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Gross, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gross, Michael Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City