Sam Kashner is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and writer of Sinatraland (a New York Times and L.A. Times Notable Book); When I Was Cool: My Life At the Jack Kerouac School; he co-authored of the New York Timesbestsellers Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century and The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters: The Tragic and Glamorous Lives of Jackie and Lee.