MARIE BRENNER is an author and writer-at-large at Vanity Fair. Raised in San Antonio, Texas, celebrated author and investigative journalist Marie Brenner has been riveting national audiences since 1985, when she joined the staff of Vanity Fair. Her investigation into Big Tobacco became the basis for the 1999 film The Insider, starring Al Pacino and Russell Crowe and nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. She is the author of five books, most recently Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found, which Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Alfred Uhry (Driving Miss Daisy) is adapting for the stage. She is the winner of six Front Page awards for her journalism and the Frank Luther Mott Kappa Tau Alpha Award for research.
KATE WALBERT is the author of the novels A Short History of Women, named one of the ten best books of 2009 by The New York Time's Book Review and finalist for The Los Angeles Times Book Award, Our Kind, finalist for the National Book Award, and The Gardens of Kyoto, as well as the story collection, Where She Went. Her short stories have appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Best American Short Stories. She taught fiction writing at Yale University for many years.
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