MICHAEL GROSS

Author of three New York Times bestsellers, Michael Gross is recognized as one of America's most provocative writers - "a premier chronicler of the rich," in the words of Gay Talese. Gross' next book, Flight of the WASP: The Rise, Fall, and Future of America's Original Ruling Class, will be published by Atlantic Monthly Press on November 14th. He is the author of House of Outrageous Fortune, 740 Park and Model, as well as Rogues' Gallery, Unreal Estate, My Generation and Focus: The Sexy, Secret, Sometimes Sordid World of Fashion Photographers. The late Dominick Dunne called his books "social history at its finest." His specialty, deconstructing the most privileged lives and revealing the reality behind carefully constructed images, is well-suited to these skeptical times. His journalism has appeared in The New York Times, New York, Vanity Fair, Esquire, and GQ and many other print publications, as well as Air Mail, The Daily Beast, Gawker and Curbed online, and he is now the Editor-at-..