New York: Places to Write Home About

About Polly Devlin

Polly Devlin is a writer broadcaster and filmmaker. She holds an OBE for services to literature. After spending her childhood in Northern Ireland at the age of twenty-two she took up her first job - as a writer and soon features editor on British Vogue at the heart of 1960s London. A couple of years later she was again transported to New York to work for Diana Vreeland on American Vogue - where once more she was very much part of the scene she wrote about in her newspaper column and articles including for The Sunday Times New Statesman and Observer. Her first book All of Us There is now a Virago Modern Classic. The most recent New York: Places to Write Home About (Pimpernel Press 2017; published in the United States by Gibbs Smith as New York: Behind Closed Doors) was greeted with delight on both sides of the Atlantic. She now divides her time between London and New York where until her recent retirement she taught Creative Non-Fiction at Barnard College Columbia University. Polly Devlin lives in West London. Annie Schlecter is a native New Yorker who has been working as a photographer since 1998. Her clients includeNew York MagazineT-MagazineHouse BeautifulTravel + LeisureThe World of Interiors Neue Galerie Marianna Kennedy and Joe Serrins Studio among others. She has worked on numerous book projects with clients such as Jonathan AdlerMartha Stewart LivingReal Simpleand The Little Bookroom for whom she has photographed and designed a series of Italian cookbooks.She enjoys eating travel and polka dots.