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Graydon Carter

Biography

Graydon Carter

Graydon Carter is the founder of Air Mail. Before this, he was a staff writer for both Time and Life. He cocreated Spy, edited The New York Observer, and for 25 years was the award-winning editor of Vanity Fair. He is also the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning producer of more than a dozen documentaries and one hit Broadway play. He and his wife live in Greenwich Village, not far from the Waverly Inn, and have five children.

Graydon Carter

Books by Graydon Carter

When the Going Was Good: An Editor's Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines
by Graydon Carter - Memoir, Nonfiction

When Graydon Carter was offered the editorship of Vanity Fair in 1992, he knew he faced an uphill battle --- how to make the esteemed and long-established magazine his own. Not only was he confronted with a staff that he perceived to be loyal to the previous regime, he arrived only a few years after launching Spy magazine, which gloried in skewering the celebrated and powerful --- the very people Vanity Fair venerated. With curiosity, fearlessness, and a love of recent history and glamour that would come to define his storied career in magazines, Carter succeeded in endearing himself to his editors, contributors and readers, as well as many of the faces that would come to appear in Vanity Fair’s pages. WHEN THE GOING WAS GOOD is Carter’s lively recounting of how he made his mark as one of the most talented editors in the business.

Vintage Postcards from Vanity Fair: One Hundred Classic Covers, 1913-1936
by Graydon Carter

From modernist wonders to striking Jazz Age delights-a box of 100 postcards, each featuring a different and beautiful vintage cover from Vanity Fair magazine.