Michael Gross (writer)

Michael Robert Gross is an American author, journalist and editor whose work focuses on the American upper class. He has a B.A. in History from Vassar College.

Biography

Early in his career, Michael Gross wrote about rock music for magazines such as Rock and Circus. From 1973, his work also appeared in Crawdaddy!, the New Musical Express, Zoo World and Swank. In addition to writing features for Circus magazine's sister publication, Circus Raves, during the mid 1970s, he served as editor-in-chief of Rock. Gross was the editor of the Fire Island News, a weekly newspaper in a New York summer colony, in 1978. He then began covering fashion photography for Photo District News and subsequently wrote the column "Fashion Statements" for Manhattan, Inc., a short-lived business magazine. In 1985, he went to work for "The New York Times", writing about fashion in feature stories and a weekly column, Notes on Fashion. In 1988, he became a Contributing Editor of New York, covering fashion and the world of the rich and famous .

In 2000, he was briefly a senior editor of George, a political magazine. In 2002, he wrote a gossip column, "The Word", for the New York Daily News. From 2002 until 2010, he edited the written content of Bergdorf Goodman Magazine. He worked for Crain's New York Business as a columnist from 2010 to 2012.

Gross was also the real estate editor and a monthly columnist for Avenue magazine and a contributing editor of Travel and Leisure magazine from 1997 until 2014. In 2015, he was named a Contributing Editor of Departures. He has also written for The New York Times, New York magazine, Esquire, GQ, Vanity Fair, and Town & Country.

Gross is married. His sister is Jane Gross, forermly a reporter and bureau chief at New York Times. Their father, Milton Gross, was also a journalist, a syndicated sports columnist for the New York Post and an author.

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 Baby Boom, the fashion designer Ralph Lauren, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and estates in Los Angeles. In 2014, Gross published a book on the luxury condominium building 15 Central Park West, with the title House of Outrageous Fortune. It reached #20 on the New York Times Non-Fiction Best Seller list.

Gross recently completed a book on fashion photographers for Simon & Schuster's Atria Books.

Bibliography

• 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, published in 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 (Harper Collins, 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).

740 Park inspired Park Avenue, the documentary directed by Alex Gibney that looks at income inequality in America. It was produced for the Why Poverty? documentary project aired on public television networks around the world in fall 2012.

External links

• MGross.com Official Michael Gross web site
• Michael Gross on ObsessedTV