Lucy Kaylin
Lucy Kaylin got her start in magazines as a fact-checker at Vogue under
Grace Mirabella. She then moved to GQ, where she wrote more than a
hundred pieces for the magazine over nearly two decades, including
dozens of cover profiles, such as the controversial, widely quoted
interview with Tom Cruise in 2006. She rose to Features Editor at GQ
under Jim Nelson before becoming Executive Editor at Marie Claire,
where she revamped the title in partnership with Editor-in-Chief Joanna
Coles. At Marie Claire, Kaylin oversaw many attention-getting stories,
including "My Sister's Secret Life" by Robert Radin, which won a Folio
award. She also wrote cover stories for the magazine and interviewed
Barack Obama (jointly with Coles); was a finalist for the MPA Mentor of
the Year award; and was instrumental in the execution of Marie Claire's
reality show on the Style network, Running in Heels, in which she
appeared. Kaylin has written two books; For the Love of God (William
Morrow, 2000), about the decline of Catholic nuns in America, and The
Perfect Stranger (Bloomsbury, 2007), about the complicated relationship
between mothers and nannies, and contributed an essay to the anthology
The Secret Currency of Love (William Morrow, 2009), about the role
money plays in relationships. She holds an MA in English Literature
from Columbia University and a BA from William Smith College, and lives
in New York City with her husband, daughter, and son.