Amy Wallace

Amy Wallace is based in Los Angeles, where she writes mostly about the entertainment industry.

Before joining Condé Nast Portfolio, she was a deputy business editor at the Los Angeles Times, where she managed a team of 18 people covering entertainment and technology. Prior to becoming an editor, she was a senior writer at Los Angeles magazine; her September 2001 profile of Peter Bart, the editor in chief of Daily Variety, was a finalist for both the National Magazine Award and the Gerald Loeb Award in 2002.

Wallace began her career as an assistant to New York Times columnist James Reston after graduating cum laude from Yale with a B.A. in history. She then spent two years at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution covering prisons and death row, among other things, and 11 years at the Los Angeles Times covering state politics, higher education, and the entertainment industry. While at the L.A. Times, she shared in two staff-wide Pulitzer Prizes: in 1992, for coverage of the Los Angeles riots, and in 1994, for coverage of the Northridge earthquake.

Wallace's work has appeared in the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Details, Esquire, the Nation, the New York Times Magazine, Elle, and other national publications.