Alex Shoumatoff

Alexander Shoumatoff is a journalist and author who was Vanity Fair's senior-most contributing editor from 1986 to 2015, and a staff writer at The New Yorker from 1978 to 1987. He has authored 11 books and was a founding contributing editor of Outside magazine and Condé Nast Traveler. Most of his books are extensions of his long-form journalism that has appeared in dozens of American and international magazines and other literary sources and collections.