Joan Juliet Buck’s acclaimed 2017 memoir The Price of Illusion blasts light on the spell of glamour and into the many, now-imperiled, worlds of Conde Nast.

An American raised in Paris and London, features editor of British Vogue at 23 , the author of two novels went on to be a mainstay of American Vogue, Vanity Fair, Traveler, and occasionally The New Yorker  , Vogue’s film critic , a member of the New York Film Festival Selection Committee, and for almost 7 years, editor-in-chief of French Vogue.   

Post-Vogue, she has acted onstage and on screen, performed monologues and  stories for “The Moth”, where her “ Ghost of The Rue Jacob” is a perennial hit. She lives in upstate New York, and can be found in many of the new magazines: Buffalozine, Encens, The Skirt Chronicles, Self Service, Upstate Diary, etc.