Michael Gross (American writer)
Michael Robert Gross is an American author, journalist and editor whose work focuses on the American upper class.
Early life
Gross has a B.A. in History from Vassar College.[1]
Career
Early in his career, Michael Gross wrote about rock music for magazines. From 1973, his work appeared primarily in
In 2000, he was briefly a senior editor of
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.[
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
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
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
- Flight of the WASP: The Rise, Fall, and Future of America’s Original Ruling Class, (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023)
- Focus: The Sexy, Secret, Sometimes Sordid World of Fashion Photographers, Atria Books (Simon & Schuster), 2016
- House of Outrageous Fortune, on 15 Central Park West, Atria Books (Simon & Schuster), 2014
- Unreal Estate: Money, Ambition and the Lust for Land in Los Angeles (Broadway Books, 2011)
- Rogues' Gallery: The Secret Story of the Lust, Lies, Greed and Betrayals That Made the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the paperback edition of a book first published in hardcover with the subtitle The Secret History of the Moguls and the Money That Made the Metropolitan Museum, an unauthorized social history of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City (Broadway Books, 2009).
- 740 Park: The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building (Broadway Books, 2005)
- Genuine Authentic: The Real Life of Ralph Lauren (HarperCollins, 2002)
- My Generation: Fifty Years of Sex, Drugs, Rock, Revolution, Glamour, Greed, Valor, Faith and Silicon Chips (Cliff Street Books, 2000)
- Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women (William Morrow, 1995).[6]
Film adaptations
- 740 Park inspired Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream, the documentary directed by Alex Gibney that explores the theme of income inequality in the United States. The film was produced for the Why Poverty? documentary project aired on public television networks around the world in fall 2012.
References
- ^ a b Pranay Gupte (2005-11-03). "Lunch at The Four Seasons with: Michael Gross". New York Sun.
- ^ "Michael Gross". Rock's Backpages. Retrieved May 28, 2015.
- ^ "Circus Raves". Rock's Backpages. Retrieved May 28, 2015.
- ^ Mgross.com
- ^ "Michael Gross, Columnist - Staff Profile". Crain's New York Business. Archived from the original on 19 May 2013. Retrieved 11 July 2022.
- ^ a b Who's Who 2009 Archived 2013-06-29 at archive.today
- ^ Elise Knutsen (2012-01-10). "Michael Gross Is Not Writing The Same Book Twice". New York Observer.
- ^ "Best Sellers". The New York Times. 2014-04-06.
- ^ 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
- MGross.com Official Michael Gross web site
- Michael Gross on ObsessedTV
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