The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983-1992

By Tina Brown

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs

The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983–1992 (2017) is a book by editor Tina Brown, published by Henry Holt, drawn from the diaries she kept while running Vanity Fair before she moved to The New Yorker. Brown recounts reviving the struggling Condé Nast magazine and her dealings with owner Si Newhouse, the celebrities, writers and socialites of 1980s New York and Hollywood, and her own ambitions and insecurities as a young woman succeeding in the media business.

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