Gerri Hirshey

For more than thirty years, Gerri Hirshey has worked as a features writer, columnist, reporter, and essayist at The Washington Post , The New York Times Magazine , Vanity Fair , GQ , Esquire , and New York , among others. She has also written for O, The Oprah Magazine , More , The Nation , Food & Wine , Ladies' Home Journal , and Parade . Beginning in the 1980s, Hirshey was the first female contributing editor to Rolling Stone --she wrote celebrity profiles of numerous artists, musicians,...See more

For more than thirty years, Gerri Hirshey has worked as a features writer, columnist, reporter, and essayist at The Washington Post , The New York Times Magazine , Vanity Fair , GQ , Esquire , and New York , among others. She has also written for O, The Oprah Magazine , More , The Nation , Food & Wine , Ladies' Home Journal , and Parade . Beginning in the 1980s, Hirshey was the first female contributing editor to Rolling Stone --she wrote celebrity profiles of numerous artists, musicians, actors, authors, and fashion designers. She is the author of several books, including Nowhere to Run: The Story of Soul Music , which is now in its seventh reprint incarnation, and We Gotta Get Outta This Place: The True, Tough Story of Women in Rock . Hirshey lives in New York City with her husband, Mark Zwonitzer, a writer and documentary filmmaker; they have two young adult children. See less