Michael Gross

Michael Gross is one of America's most provocative non-fiction writers and journalists. The 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 in Focus, which exposed the sexy, scandalous world of fashion photographers. His next book does the same for St. Barth, the billionaire bolt-hole in the Caribbean.