Stephen Fried is an award-winning investigative journalist and essayist and an adjunct professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is the author of Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia (the inspiration for the Emmy-winning
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Stephen Fried is an award-winning investigative journalist and essayist and an adjunct professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is the author of Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia (the inspiration for the Emmy-winning film Gia),
Bitter Pills, The New Rabbi,
and
Husbandry. A two-time winner of the National Magazine Award, Fried has written frequently for
Vanity Fair,
GQ, The Washington Post Magazine, Rolling Stone, Glamour, Ladies’ Home Journal, and
Philadelphia magazine. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, author Diane Ayres.