Stephen Fried, an award-winning investigative journalist and essayist, is the author of THING OF BEAUTY: THE TRAGEDY OF SUPERMODEL GIA and BITTER PILLS: INSIDE THE HAZARDOUS WORLD OF LEGAL DRUGS. His work has appeared frequently in Vanity Fair, The Washington Post Magazine, Glamour, GQ, and Philadelphia magazine. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, author Diane Ayres.
