The Vanity Fair Diaries by Tina Brown
Named one of the best books of 2017 by Time, People, Amazon.com, The Guardian, Paste Magazine, The Economist, Entertainment Weekly, & Vogue
Tina Brown kept delicious daily diaries throughout her eight spectacular years as editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair. Today they provide an incendiary portrait of the flash and dash and power brokering of the Excessive Eighties in New York and Hollywood. The Vanity Fair Diaries is the story of an Englishwoman barely out of her twenties who arrives in New York City with a dream. Summoned from London in hopes that she can save Cond Nast's troubled new flagship Vanity Fair, Tina Brown is immediately plunged into the maelstrom of the competitive New York media world and the backstabbing rivalries at the court of the planet's slickest, most glamour-focused magazine company. She survives the politics, the intrigue, and the attempts to derail her by a simple stratagem: succeeding. In the face of rampant skepticism, she triumphantly reinvents a failing magazine. Here are the inside stories of Vanity Fair scoops and covers that sold millions--the Reagan kiss, the meltdown of Princess Diana's marriage to Prince Charles, the sensational Annie Leibovitz cover of a gloriously pregnant, naked Demi Moore. In the diary's cinematic pages, the drama, the comedy, and the struggle of running an it magazine come to life. Brown's Vanity Fair Diaries is also a woman's journey, of making a home in a new country and of the deep bonds with her husband, their prematurely born son, and their daughter. Astute, open-hearted, often riotously funny, Tina Brown's The Vanity Fair Diaries is a compulsively fascinating and intimate chronicle of a woman's life in a glittering era.TINA BROWN is the originator of the Women in the World Conference and an award-winning writer and editor. She was the editor of Tatler, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker from 1979 until 2001. The Diana Chronicles, her biography of the Princess of Wales, debuted at the top of the New York Times bestseller list in 2007. She launched The Daily Beast in 2008, and it was awarded the Webby Award for Best News Site in 2012 and 2013. In 2000, Queen Elizabeth named her a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for her contributions to international journalism, and she was inducted into the United States Journalism Hall of Fame in 2007.
The Hall of Fame for Magazine Editors. In 2010, she founded the Women in the World Conference, and in 2014, she launched Tina Brown Live Media to take Women in the World global. She lives in New York City with her husband, Sir Harold Evans, an editor, publisher, and historian.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781627791366 |
| ISBN 10 | 1627791361 |
| Title | The Vanity Fair Diaries |
| Author | Tina Brown |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Henry Holt & Company |
| Year published | 2017-11-14 |
| Number of pages | 448 |
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