- Angie Harmon
Angela Michelle Harmon Sehorn (born August 10, 1972) is an American fashion model and television/film actress. She became a well-known model in the 1990s and developed a career as a television star after roles on "Baywatch Nights" and "Law & Order".
- John Mayer
John Clayton Mayer (born October 16, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Originally from Connecticut, he briefly attended Berklee College of Music before moving to Atlanta, Georgia in 1998, where he refined his skills and began gaining a following. His first two studio albums, "Room for Squares" and "Heavier Things", both did well commercially, achieving multi-platinum status.
- A.J. Jacobs
Arnold Stephen Jacobs, Jr., commonly called A.J. Jacobs is an American journalist and author. Jacobs was born in New York City to lawyer Arnold Jacobs Sr. and Ellen Kheel. He has one sister, Beryl Jacobs. Jacobs studied philosophy at Brown University. Jacobs is best known for having read all 32 volumes of the "Encyclopædia Britannica", and wrote about his experiences in his humorous book, …
- Chuck Klosterman
My take on Klosterman is this: if you absolutely must get a pop culture fix by reading about inane movie stars or overrated bands, you might as well read someone who is smart and funny about them, and that person is Klosterman. Although not a metal fan, I loved Fargo Rock City , and found his essays in Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs exceedingly funny.
- Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas was a noted painter of pin-up girls and erotica. Born in Arequipa, Peru, Joaquin Alberto Vargas y Chávez came to the United States in 1916 after studying art in Europe prior to World War I. His early career included work as an artist for the Ziegfeld Follies and for many Hollywood studios.
- Ron Rosenbaum
Ron Rosenbaum grew up on Long Island, New York. A graduate of Yale with a degree in English literature, he left Yale Graduate School to write full-time. His essays and journalism have appeared in Harper's, The New Yorker, The Atlantic and The New York Times Magazine (eight cover stories).
- George Petty
George Brown Petty IV (27 April 1894 - 21 July 1975) was an American pin-up artist. His pin-up art appeared primarily in "Esquire" and Fawcett Publications's "True" but was also in calendars marketed by "Esquire", "True" and Ridge Tool Company. Petty's "Esquire" gatefolds originated and popularized the magazine device of centerfold spreads.
- Art Kane
Art Kane (born Arthur Kanofsky on April 9 1925 in New York City) was a renowned fashion and music photographer active from the 1950s through early 1990s. He created many famous portraits of musicians, including Bob Dylan, The Who and the Rolling Stones One of his most famous works was of 57 jazz musicians for "Esquire magazine" in 1958 in Harlem, which became the basis for a documentary, "A Great Day in Harlem".
- Arnold Gingrich
Arnold Gingrich (1903 - 1976) was the founder (with David Smart, a Chicago publisher) and editor of the Esquire (magazine). He created the magazine in 1933 and remained its editor until 1961. Gingrich was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1903. Gingrich published such authors as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, John Dos Passos, Garry Wills, Truman Capote, and Norman Mailer.
- James Wolcott
James Wolcott (born 1952 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American journalist, known for his critique of contemporary media. Wolcott is the cultural critic for "Vanity Fair" and contributes to "The New Yorker". He also writes a blog. Born in the suburbs of Baltimore, Wolcott attended Maryland's Frostburg State College for two years. From there, he moved to New York City to work at "The Village Voice".
- Michael Herr
Michael Herr is a writer and former war correspondent, best known as the author of "Dispatches" (1977), a memoir of his time as a correspondent for "Esquire magazine" (1967-1969) during the Vietnam War.
- Robert Benton
Robert Benton (born September 29, 1932 in Waxahachie, Texas) is an American screenwriter and film director. He has enjoyed a highly successful career in film, winning numerous prestigious awards for both writing and directing. He was also the art director at "Esquire" magazine in the early 1960s.
- John Sack
John Sack (1930-2004) was an American literary journalist. He was the only journalist to cover each American war over half a century. He was born to a Jewish family on 1930 March 24 in New York City. His work has appeared in such periodicals as "Harper's", "The Atlantic", "Esquire (magazine)" and "The New Yorker". He has been a war correspondent in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Yugoslavia, as well as CBS News bureau chief in Spain.
- Colby Buzzell
Colby Buzzell (b. 1976 in California) is an American author, blogger and former soldier with the United States Army. Buzzell grew up in California and enlisted in the United States Army at the age of 26. Prior to joining the Army he described his life as engaging in a lot of drinking, drug use, dead-end jobs and a minor criminal record. He was very optimistic about his Army service and was determined to follow the Army recruiting slogan of "Be All That You Can Be".
- Clay Felker
Clay Schuette Felker is a magazine editor and journalist who founded New York Magazine in 1968. Born on October 2, 1925, in Webster Groves, Felker went on to attend Duke University, where he edited the student newspaper, "The Chronicle". After graduating in 1951, Felker went on to work as a sportswriter for "Life Magazine". He later worked for "TIME", "Esquire", and the "New York Herald Tribune".
- Chris Whittle
H. Christopher "Chris" Whittle is an American entrepreneur best known for founding Channel One News. Whittle was born on August 23, 1947 in Etowah, Tennessee. After graduating from the University of Tennessee with a major in American Studies he started the magazine "Knoxville in a Nutshell" with Phillip Moffitt and others. Later they founded the 13-30 Corporation in Knoxville. In 1979 13-30 bought "Esquire" magazine.
- Christopher Buckley
Christopher Taylor Buckley (born 1952) is an American political satirist and the author of several novels. He is the son of William F. Buckley, Jr. and Patricia Buckley. His novels include "God Is My Broker", "Thank You for Smoking", "Little Green Men", "The White House Mess", "No Way to Treat a First Lady", "Wet Work", "Florence of Arabia" and, most recently, "Boomsday".
- Terry Southern
Terry Southern was a highly influential American short story writer, novelist, essayist, screenwriter and university lecturer. He was part of the Paris postwar literary movement in the 1950s and a companion to Beat writers in Greenwich Village; he was at the center of Swinging London in the sixties and helped to change the style and substance of Hollywood films of the 1970s.
- Pete Hamill
Pete Hamill is a prominent American journalist, novelist, and short story writer. He is currently on the staff of "The New Yorker". In the early 1950s, he studied at the School of Visual Arts. In 1960, Hamill began working as a reporter for the New York Post. In subsequent years, he became one of the city's best known reporters, as columnist for the Post, the "New York Daily News", and "Newsday".
- Jules Feiffer
Jules Feiffer is a cartoonist, novelist, playwright, screenwriter and children's book author. His weekly political comic strip ran in The Village Voice for forty years and was syndicated nationwide. A new children's novel, A Room with a Zoo , is forthcoming (September 2005).
- Rick Moody
Rick Moody (born Hiram Frederick Moody, III on October 18 1961, New York City), is an American novelist and short story writer best known for "The Ice Storm" (1994), a chronicle of the dissolution of two suburban Connecticut families over Thanksgiving weekend in 1973, which brought widespread acclaim, and became a bestseller; it was later made into a feature film. His first novel "Garden State" (1992) won the Pushcart Editor's Choice Award.
- Paul Rieckhoff
Paul Rieckhoff founded and is Executive Director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA). A non-partisan non-profit founded in 2004 with tens of thousands of members in all 50 US states, IAVA is America’s first and largest Iraq and Afghanistan veterans' group. Honored by "Esquire" as one of "America’s Best and Brightest" in 2004, Rieckhoff has appeared on hundreds of radio and television programs.
- Mike Lupica
Mike Lupica (born 1952) is an American newspaper columnist, best known for his provocative sports commentary in the "New York Daily News" and his appearances on ESPN.
- Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben is a writer and activist on global warming, alternative energy, and the need to reshape our economy and our communities. His first book, The End of Nature , was the first book for a general audience about climate change, and has been printed in more than 20 languages. In late summer 2006, Bill helped lead a five-day walk across Vermont to demand action on global warming that some newspaper accounts called the largest demonstration to date in America about climate change.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert (born 1969) is an American novelist, essayist, short story writer, biographer and memoirist.
- Steve Jones
Steve Jones (born 16 March 1977) is a Welsh television presenter and model. He is most well known for presenting Channel 4's T4 strand of programmes. He started as a model for "Esquire", he then moved into presenting starting with "The Pop Factory Awards" and "99 Things To Do Before You Die". Jones has since become a regular feature on Channel 4's weekend entertainment programme "T4".
- Stanley Bing
Stanley Bing is the pen name of Gil Schwartz, a business humorist and novelist. He has written a column for Fortune magazine for more than ten years, after having spent a decade at Esquire, and has written many books (see below). Schwartz is public relations executive for CBS. He would prefer that this remain a secret, as it was for the first ten years of Bing's existence.
- Aaron Latham
Aaron Latham is a journalist who wrote the article that inspired the movie "Urban Cowboy" and co-wrote its script with director James Bridges. He also co-wrote the book for the shortlived 2003 Broadway musical version. Latham is a regular contributor to such publications as "Rolling Stone", "Esquire", "Talk", and "The New York Times".
- Nicole Krauss
Nicole Krauss (born 1974) is an American writer who lives in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, novelist Jonathan Safran Foer and their son, Sasha. Krauss' first novel "Man Walks Into a Room" was named Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times. Her second novel "The History of Love" was released in early 2005. "The History of Love" was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2006.
- Erin Wasson
Erin Wasson grew up in Irving, Texas, wanting to be either a basketball star or a model. The decision was made for her when she won the Fashion!Dallas Kim Dawson model search during her junior year in high school. From there, she landed jobs in local advertisements, and soon went on to bigger things. After appearing in ads for Gucci, she was involved in her first campaign for Dolce & Gabbana in 2002.
- Adrienne Miller
Adrienne Miller (1972-) is an American writer. From 1997 to 2005, she was the fiction editor of "Esquire" magazine.
- Stacey Grenrock-Woods
Stacey Grenrock-Woods (born November 22, 1968 in Los Angeles) is an American comedian and former correspondent on "The Daily Show". Her correspondent reports included, for example, an investigation of self-proclaimed "ass psychics" who were in the business of giving people psychic readings based on their rear ends. Grenrock-Woods is also a sex columnist in "Esquire" magazine and co-editor of "L.A. Innuendo" magazine.
- Mike D'Angelo
Mike D'Angelo (born 1968) is a very nice man and the chief film critic for Esquire magazine. He regularly contributes film reviews to "Las Vegas Weekly" and Nerve, and maintains a personal website, The Man Who Viewed Too Much. One of the first notable online film critics, D'Angelo created his site and began self-publishing short reviews in August 1995.
- Charlie Pierce
Charles P. Pierce, otherwise known as Charlie Pierce (born December 28 1953) is an American sportswriter. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, Pierce currently writes for the "Boston Globe" Sunday magazine, a position he has held since April 2002. He has also written for the "The New York Times", the "Los Angeles Times", the "Chicago Tribune", the "Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel", "Esquire" and "GQ" magazines, …
- Craig Unger
Craig Unger is an American journalist and writer. His most recent book is "House of Bush, House of Saud" about the relationship between the Bush family and the House of Saud. Craig Unger's work is featured in Michael Moore's film "Fahrenheit 9/11". Unger has served as deputy editor of the New York Observer and was editor-in-chief of Boston Magazine. Unger has written about George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush for The New Yorker, …
- Heidi Julavits
Heidi Julavits is an American author and co-editor of "The Believer" magazine. She has been published in "Esquire", "Story", "Zoetrope All-Story", and "McSweeney’s Quarterly". Her novels include "The Mineral Palace" (2000), "The Effect of Living Backwards" (2003), and "The Uses of Enchantment" (2006).
- Andrew Sean Greer
Andrew Sean Greer is an American novelist and short story writer. He was born in Washington, DC, the son of two scientists. He studied writing at Brown University, where he was the Commencement Speaker at his own graduation. He received his MFA from the University of Montana, and soon after moved to San Francisco and began to publish in magazines such as "Esquire", "The Paris Review" and "The New Yorker" before releasing a collection of his stories, …
- Robert Christgau
Robert Christgau (born April 18, 1942), is an American essayist, music journalist, and the self-declared "Dean of American Rock Critics". In print, his name is sometimes abbreviated as "Xgau".
- Katie Hafner
Katie Hafner is a journalist who writes books and articles about technology. She is a technology reporter at "The New York Times" and contributing editor for "Newsweek". She has worked at "Business Week", and has written for "Esquire", "Wired", "The New Republic" and "The New York Times Magazine". She lives with her family in Marin County, California.
- Lizz Winstead
Lizz Winstead (born August 5, 1961) is a Minnesota-born comedian who was co-creator of "The Daily Show" ("TDS") along with Madeline Smithberg, and served as head writer. In late 1997, the show's host Craig Kilborn made an offensive comment about Winstead in an "Esquire magazine" interview, and behind-the-scenes tension led her to leave the program in early 1998.