Michael Shnayerson, a longtime
contributing editor to Vanity Fair,
is the author of Irwin Shaw, The Car That Could, The Killers Within, and Coal
River, which recounted the efforts of Appalachian lawyers and grassroots groups
to stop the devastating practice of mountaintop coal removal in southern West
Virginia. His passion for those environmental activists contributed to Harry
Belafonte choosing him to collaborate on his autobiography. Shnayerson has been a reporter at the Santa Fe Reporter, a staff writer for Time, and a consulting editor at Conde Nast Traveler. His book The Car That Could was named one of the
best business books of 1996 by BusinessWeek. He lives in
Bridgehampton, New York, with his daughter. |