Michael Beahan Shnayerson (born December 2, 1954) is an American

United States

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 journalist and contributing editor for Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair (magazine)

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magazine. He is the author of several books and over 75 Vanity Fair stories since 1986. Two of his pieces for the magazine have been developed into films. In 1980, Shnayerson became the editor-in-chief of Avenue magazine, after stints at TIME

Time

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magazine and The Santa Fe Reporter.

Biography

Shnayerson is the son of the journalist and editor Robert Shnayerson and a graduate of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College

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 and the Collegiate School

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. He was briefly married to Cynthia Stuart, daughter of the actress Mary Stuart

Mary Stuart (actress)

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 before marrying the writer Cheryl Merser. Shnayerson lives in Sag Harbor, New York

Sag Harbor, New York

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, with his daughter.

In 2004, Shnayerson contributed $2,000 to John Kerry

John Kerry

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External links

• MichaelShnayerson.com
• Coal River book
• IMDb Profile
• Vanity Fair Biography of Michael Shnayerson
• Night Comes to the Appalachians Michael Tomasky
  Michael Tomasky
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   review of Coal River from The New York Review of Books
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