Big Book of the Hamptons

Michael Shnayerson is a long time contributing editor to Vanity Fair whose features for the magazineencompass politics, the arts, society, the environment, publishing, and Hollywood. He is the author or coauthor of five books, most recently Coal River, a work of narrative nonfiction about the tragedy of mountaintop coal removal in Appalachia, published in 2008 by Farrar, Strauss, Giroux; and My Song, singer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte's memoir, co-written with Mr. Belafonte and published in 2011 by Alfred Knopf. He is currently working on a first biography of New York governor Andrew Cuomo, to be published by Grand Central Press. Shnayerson has lived full-time in Sag Harbor and Bridgehampton for more than twenty years.