Steven Gaines is the author of twelve books, including a New York Times bestselling social and cultural portrait of the Hamptons, Philistines at the Hedgerow. He is a contributing editor at New York Magazine, and his journalism has appeared in The New York Times, New York Observer, and Vanity Fair.

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