Steven Gaines

Steven Gaines (b.1946) is an American author [http://search.ew.com/EWSearch/ew/search/search.html?search=Steven+Gaines] and a journalist. His books include "Philistines at the Hedgerow": Passion and Property in the Hamptons [http://nytimes.com/library/books/090498gaines-hamptons.html] [http://www.cnn.com/books/dialogue/9808/steven.gaines/index.html] [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0316309079] ; "The Sky’s the Limit" [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0316154555] : Passion and Property in Manhattan; "The Love You Make": An Insider's Story of the Beatles; and "Marjoe", the biography of evangelist Marjoe Gortner.

He is a contributing editor at New York Magazine [http://nymag.com/search/search.cgi?search_type=sw&N=22&textquery=Steven+Gaines&scope=sc-magazine&x=24&y=19] and his journalism has appeared in "Vanity Fair", the "New York Observer", the "New York Times", "Los Angeles", "Worth", and" Connoisseur".

Since 2003 Gaines has hosted a weekly live radio roundtable interview show from the Hamptons called "Sunday Brunch Live from the American Hotel in Sag Harbor" that airs from Memorial Weekend to Labor Day on WLIU FM [http://www.WLIU.org] Southampton, New York, a National Public Radio affiliate.

The film version of Gaines' biography about the fashion designer Halston, "Simply Halston" [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0985012/] , is in pre-production with Killer Films starring actor Brendan Fraser.

Gaines was born in Brooklyn, New York and attended Erasmus Hall High School and New York University. He began his journalism career as the "Top of the Pop" columnist for the New York Daily News [http://www.nydailynews.com/] . In the early part of his career he wrote several books about the music business, including Alice Cooper's autobiography, "Me, Alice", before briefly switching his focus to fashion designers with biographies on Halston and Calvin Klein.

In 1980 he published a controversial "roman a clef" called "The Club" about the nightclub Studio 54 that he co-wrote with a 21 year-old Studio 54 bartender, Robert Jon Cohen. As Robert Granit, he published "Another Runner in the Night" in 1981, a novel about a homosexual film producer married to the daughter of a studio boss.

Gaines is best known for his 1998 social and cultural history of the East End of Long Island called "Philistines at the Hedgerow": Passion and Property in the Hamptons.

In 1993 he co-founded the Hamptons International Film Festival.

Books

"Marjoe" , the biography of evangelist Marjoe Gortner; "Me, Alice", the biography of rock star Alice Cooper; "Discotheque", a novel; "The Club", a novel (with Robert Jon Cohen); "Another Runner in the Night", a novel; "The Love You Make: An Insider’s Story of the Beatles" (with Peter Brown);"Heroes and Villains: The True Story of the Beach Boys." [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0301359/] ; "Simply Halston: The Untold Story"; "Obsession: The Lives and Times of Calvin Klein" (with Sharon Churcher) "Philistines at the Hedgerow: Passion and Property in the Hamptons." "The Sky’s the Limit: Passion and Property in Manhattan." "Fool's Paradise: Players, Poseurs and the Culture of Excess in South Beach".