Arthur Lubow (born September 18, 1952) is an American journalist who has written for national magazines since 1975 and is the author ofDiane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer (2016).

Lubow grew up inthe Bronx and attended theBronx High School of Science. AtHarvard College, from which he graduated in 1974, he was managing editor ofThe Harvard Crimson. He studied at Cambridge University on aKnox Fellowship from autumn 1974 to spring 1975.

Lubow began his career as a staff writer forNew Times, a now defunct general interest biweekly; he wrote there about a wide array of subjects, including New German cinema,^[1] genetic engineering^[2] and President Ford’s environmental policy.^[3]

He was a senior writer atPeople from 1981 to 1985, where his profile subjects included Oliver Sacks, John Travolta, Paul Theroux, Brian Eno and Pauline Kael.

A contributing editor atVanity Fair from 1985 to 1987, he mainly wrote stories on writers, including Gay Talese, Gore Vidal and Stephen Hawking.

When Tina Brown leftVanity Fair as the editor-in-chief ofVanity Fair forThe New Yorker, he was part of a small group of writers asked to accompany her. He worked as a staff writer atThe New Yorker from 1992 to 1993, and continued thereafter to contribute to the magazine as a freelancer, on subjects that include the playwright Tony Kushner, biographical film projects on Jackson Pollock, and the creation of an advertising campaign for Stolichnaya vodka.

From 2002 to 2014, Lubow was a contributing writer atThe New York Times Magazine, writing mainly on cultural topics, including the artist Takashi Murakami, the chef Ferran Adria, the conductors Valery Gergiev and Gustavo Dudamel, the composer Arvo Part, the photographer Jeff Wall, the novelist Penelope Fitzgerald, the architects Rem Koolhaas, Thom Mayne, Jean Nouvel and SANAA, and the battle between Yale University and Peru over artifacts fromMachu Picchu.

He has also written frequently forSmithsonian,Departures,W andThe Threepenny Review.^[4]

Lubow wrote the first American feature story on the now legendary English singer-songwriterNick Drake in 1978.^[5] His earlier book,The Reporter Who Would Be King: A Biography of Richard Harding Davis, was published by Scribners in 1992. He has contributed to books on the artist Liza Lou^[6] and the writer W.G. Sebald.^[7]

In 2016Ecco Press published Lubow's bookDiane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer.^[8] The book grew out of a cover story on Arbus that appeared inThe New York Times Magazine in September 2003.^[9]

In 2018, he wrote an essay, "On Shame," in which he discussed the interrelatedness between pride and shame in the context of his identity as a gay man.^[10]

Lubow lives in New York City and East Haddam, Connecticut.

• Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer. New York:Ecco Press, 2016.ISBN 978-0-06-223432-2.
• Man Ray: The Artist and his Shadows..Yale University Press, 2021.ISBN 978-0-30-023721-4.
• The Reporter Who Would Be King: A Biography of Richard Harding Davis.Scribner Book Company, 1992.ISBN 978-0-684-19404-2.

• 1984: National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship^{[citation needed]}
• 1999: James Beard Award, "Journalism - Magazine Restaurant Review or Critique" category^[11]
• First Prize of the Spanish Academy of Gastronomy in 2003.^{[citation needed]}
• Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities^[12]
• 2013-14: Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars at the New York Public Library^[13]

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