Named one of the best books of 2017 by Time, People, Amazon.com, The Guardian, Paste Magazine, The Economist, Entertainment Weekly, & Vogue Tina Brown kept delicious daily diaries throughout her eight spectacular years as editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair . Today they provide an incendiary portrait of the flash and dash and power brokering of the Excessive Eighties in New York and Hollywood. The Vanity Fair Diaries is the story of an Englishwoman barely out of her twenties who arrives in New York City with a dream. Summoned from London in hopes that she can save Condé Nast's troubled new flagship Vanity Fair , Tina Brown is immediately plunged into the maelstrom of the competitive New York media world and the backstabbing rivalries at the court of the planet's slickest, most glamour-focused magazine company. She survives the politics, the intrigue, and the attempts to derail her by a simple stratagem: succeeding. In the face of rampant skepticism, she triumphantly reinvents a failing magazine. Here are the inside stories of Vanity Fair scoops and covers that sold millions―the Reagan kiss, the meltdown of Princess Diana's marriage to Prince Charles, the sensational Annie Leibovitz cover of a gloriously pregnant, naked Demi Moore. In the diary's cinematic pages, the drama, the comedy, and the struggle of running an "it" magazine come to life. Brown's Vanity Fair Diaries is also a woman's journey, of making a home in a new country and of the deep bonds with her husband, their prematurely born son, and their daughter. Astute, open-hearted, often riotously funny, Tina Brown's The Vanity Fair Diaries is a compulsively fascinating and intimate chronicle of a woman's life in a glittering era. A Time Magazine Top 10 Non-Fiction Book of 2017 A People Top 10 Book of 2017 A The Guardian Best Biography and Autobiography Book of 2017 A Paste Magazine Top 20 Best Nonfiction Book of 2017 A Vogue Best Book of 2017 A The Economist Best Book of 2017 An Entertainment Weekly Best Celebrity Bio of 2017 “Right there. That’s what makes Brown such a fabulous diarist. It’s not just that she’s a wonderful writer (although she is: fluent, funny, fierce ). It’s more that, even after taking her seat at America’s top table, she never stops noticing. Amid the narcotic stupefaction of great wealth, Brown is invariably alert and on the money .” ―Allison Pearson, Sunday Telegraph (UK) “There has been fevered speculation about Tina Brown’s diaries for decades . . . Well, here they finally are―and I read them in one six-hour sprint of pure pleasure and joy. These are the most compelling media diaries since Piers Morgan’s The Insider but with a tonier cast of characters, indiscreet, brilliantly observed, frequently hilarious . . . Her turnaround of the relaunched Vanity Fair in the mid-Eighties is the stuff of journalistic legend―an electrifying, glitzy, gritty triumph―and these are the years covered by these diaries. And it's all here: the Demi Moore naked and pregnant front cover, Claus von Bulow photographed in black leather, Donald and Ivana Trump, the whole sweep of Eighties Manhattan reported at first hand in Tina’s fresh, beady, borderline-paranoid style . . . As a primer for how to edit a hot magazine, there is much to learn here . . . Tina encounters it all, and deals with it." ―Nicholas Coleridge, Evening Standard (UK) “In a memoir about her tenure at the helm of Vanity Fair , the legendary editor deftly crystallizes moments in social history . . . Spectacular . . . Here not only is Brown’s voice and sensibility, but also her searching and candid self-assessment.” ―David Frum, The Atlantic “Brown’s diary entries from these heady early years of Vanity Fair ’s ascent are entertaining reading, not least because the story of a provincial―or, in this case, expat import―making good in the big city is always fun . . . She’s an ace at thumbnail portraiture . . . Best of all, she’s often funny.” ― Bookforum “ Delicious . . . spectacular.” ― Entertainment Weekly “Brown’s account of her first decade as an editor in the US is a love letter to this idea of America: as a place where one comes to shed the inhibitions of home . . . A mine of juicy encounters . . . delightful .” ―Emma Brockes, The Guardian “A zingy account of the glittery, shallow 1980s . . . Brown is a waspish, reliably slick writer―her witty skewerings are first-class.” ― The Times (London) “ A revelation . . . Brown is a woman of wondrous drive and ambition, arcing through the world as if fired from a cannon . . . There’s swing in Brown’s voice and vinegar in her pen . . . For legacy-media freaks, The Vanity Fair Diaries is a bound volume of crack.” ―Jennifer Senior, The New York Times Book Review “ The Vanity Fair Diaries is the perfect stocking filler for any social x-ray who yearns to wallow in nostalgia. But even students of our own time will find the prescience of Brown’s