David Margolick David Margolick is a long-time contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Prior to that, for fifteen years he was a legal affairs reporter at the New York Times, where he covered the trials of O.J. Simpson and Lorena Bobbitt, among othes, and wrote the weekly "At the Bar" column. His work there was nominated four times for the Pulitzer Prize. He has been a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review and the Wall Street Journal's weekly Review section.

He is the author of many books, including Dreadful: The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns; Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock; Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink; and Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song. He lives in New York City. Read More Read Less