Michael Gross

Michael Gross is one of America's most provocative non-fiction writers and journalists. His latest book, Treasured Island, tells the astonishing story of St. Barth, the Caribbean island that transformed itself from a barren volcanic rock into a billionaire bolt-hole. The New York Times-best-selling author of Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women, House of Outrageous Fortune, the story of 15 Central Park West and its residents, and 740 Park: The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building, he's also written detective novels, biographies, exposes and social histories like Flight of the WASP: The Rise, Fall and Future of America's Original Ruling Class, Rogues' Gallery, an intensely researched expose of the moguls and money that made New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, Unreal Estate, which uncovered the secrets of the estate district of Los Angeles, and Focus, which exposed the sexy, scandalous world of fashion photographers. He recently launched the Substack "The Haves" and is the Editor at Large of Palmer Magazine.