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157<p>Phoebe Hoban is a New York-based journalist. She began her journalistic career at <i>Newsweek International</i>, writing about new technology. In 1984, she began writing a technology column for New York Magazine.<br><br>In 1985, she began writing investigative articles about cultural controversies at <i>New York Magazine</i>. Among her signature pieces were “The Salinger File,” an in-depth piece about J.D. Salinger on the occasion of the lawsuit he brought against his then-biographer, Ian Hamilton; “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Woody Allen But Were Afraid to Ask,” about his notorious breakup with Mia Farrow and subsequent union with Soon-Yi Previn; Battlemania: about opera star Kathleen Battle’s departure from the Metropolitan Opera; and “Psycho Drama,” about Bret Easton Ellis’ book,  “American Psycho," being cancelled by Simon and Schuster and snapped up by Knopf.<br><br>From 1985 to the present, she has covered culture and the arts for a number of publications, including <i>The New York Times</i>, <i>New York Magazine</i>, and <i>The New York Observer</i>. She has also written for <i>Vogue</i>, <i>Harper’s Bazaar</i>, <i>GQ</i>, <i>Vanity Fair</i>, <i>Elle</i> and <i>TV Guide</i>, writing pieces from investigative stories to celebrity profiles. Her regular stints at the <i>New York Times</i> include the "Night Column", she wrote weekly for the <i>Sunday Times</i> from 1996-1998, and a two-year stint as and off-off Broadway theater critic for <i>The New York Times</i>, from 2004-2006.<br><br>Phoebe Hoban's books include:  <br><br>Her best-selling biography of 80’s art star Jean-Michel Basquiat, “Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art,” which was published by Viking in 1998 and was a New York Times notable book of the year. The Penguin paperback came out in 1999; an edition with a new afterward came out in 2004.<br><br>Her biography of Alice Neel, “Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty,” will be published by St. Martin’s press on December 7, 2010.<br><br>Two children's books, “Ready, Set, Robot,” and “And The Laziest Robot in Zone One,” Both co-written with her mother, the late children’s book illustrator and author,  Lillian Hoban, were published by HarperCollins in the 1980s.<br><br></p>
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