Fried, Stephen

Stephen Fried is the author of three books, "Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia"; Bitter Pills: Inside the Hazardous World of Legal Drugs; and The New Rabbi: A Congregation Searches for Its Leader. A two-time winner of the National Magazine Award, he has written articles for "Glamour, Vanity Fair, GQ, "and "Rolling Stone," He is an adjunct professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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