David Kamp

David Kamp has been a Vanity Fair contributing editor since 1996, profiling such monumental figures of the arts as Johnny Cash, Lucian Freud, Sly Stone, and John Hughes. He has also been responsible for many of the magazine’s recurring humor features, such as the Rock, Film, and Food Snob’s Dictionaries (which have in turn been developed into books and Condé Nast Entertainment videos) and the Impossible Interview series. Kamp is also the author of the best-selling The United States of Arugula (Broadway Books, 2006), a chronicle of America’s evolving foodways. Before joining Vanity Fair, he was an editor and writer at GQ, and began his career at the satirical monthly Spy. He lives in New York City.