Savage Grace - Natalie Robins (59 page)

N
ATALIE
R
OBINS
is the author of four volumes of poetry. Since
Savage Grace
first appeared, she has published four other nonfiction books, including
Alien Ink: The FBI’s War on Freedom of Expression,
winner of the Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award, and
The Girl Who Died Twice: The Libby Zion Case and the Hidden Hazards of Hospitals.
Her latest book,
Copeland’s Cure,
about the war between conventional and alternative medicine, came out in 2005. She lives in New York City with her husband, the writer Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, and is at work on her tenth book. (www.natalierobins.net)

S
TEVEN
M. L. A
RONSON,
a former book editor and publisher, is the author of
HYPE
, an investigation of the phenomenon of disproportion. He has contributed scores of articles to national magazines, including
Architectural Digest
(where he is a contributing writer),
Vanity Fair, The Nation, Poetry, Town & Country, New York, Esquire
, and
Vogue.
Most recently, he wrote the biographical text for the Taschen Collector’s Edition of the work of the artist and photographer Peter Beard. He lives in New York City.