Stephen Fried is an American investigative journalist, non-fiction author, essayist and adjunct professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City. His first book, Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia, a biography of model Gia Carangi and her era, was published in 1993. He has since written Bitter Pills: Inside the Hazardous World of Legal Drugs, an investigation of medication safety and the pharmaceutical-industrial complex; The New Rabbi, which weaves the dramatic search for a new religious leader at one of the nation's most influential houses of worship with a meditation on the author's Jewish upbringing; Husbandry, a collection of essays on marriage and men; and Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Empire that Civilized the Wild West, the first biography of restaurant and hotel entrepreneur Fred Harvey. Fried is also an award-winning writer, a two-time recipient of the National Magazine Award, and has written for GQ, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Glamour, Parade, Ladies' Home Journal and Philadelphia magazine, where he was also editor-in-chief in 1999 and 2000. 

January 19th, 1958 in Harrisburg (Age 67)