Of the crop of stellar illustrators America produced during the culture-rocking early 1960s, few have been more notable, enduring and, I would say, magnificent than Barbara Nessim, whose work–though often commissioned for magazines, posters and ads–can as easily be considered art with a capital A. But Nessim, a woman from the Bronx whose talent burst […]
Author: Sheila Weller
Sheila Weller is the author of seven books, most recently The News Sorority (about Katie Couric, Diane Sawyer and Christiane Amanpour) and perhaps most famously Girls Like Us (about Joni Mitchell, Carole King and Carly Simon). As a magazine writer, she's been an active contributor to Vanity Fair and Glamour for more than a decade, and wrote for Ms. magazine for a number of years, beginning in the 1970s.