Marie Brenner

Apples & Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found

How can two people share the same parents and turn out to be entirely different? Based on her vibrant memoir about a grown brother and sister who could not be more different coming together in the face of all that conspires to keep them apart, Ms. Brenner draws on personal experiences to explore the largely untapped subject of sibling relations.

Going Hollywood: An Insider's Look at Power and Pretense in the Movie Business

Though the benefits of luxuriating in Hollywood’s waters continue to lure journalists and media organizations alike, there are some dangerous currents. Scripts that come out of good magazine articles can mean better movies, but how will the allure of Hollywood affect the future of journalistic content?

Great Dames: What I Learned from Older Women

Ten outstanding women of the century, including Thelma Brenner, the first great dame her daughter ever knew. Their lives were both gloriously individual and yet somehow universal. They were mighty warriors and social leaders, women of aspiration who persevered. They lived through the Great Depression and a world war. Circumstances did not defeat them. They played on Broadway and in Washington. They had glamour, style, and intelligence. They dressed up the world.

Global Anti-Semitism

Widely credited for bringing to international attention the attacks against the Jews of France, Marie Brenner has been a witness to the rise of anti Semitism in the world and inspires with her stories of those who are trying to call attention to it.

Award-Winning Journalist and Author

Marie Brenner is an author and Writer-at-Large for Vanity Fair. Her newest book, Apples and Oranges, My Brother and Me, Lost and Found, is an extraordinary memoir—one that is heartbreakingly honest, funny and true. Drawing on personal experiences to explore the largely untapped subject of sibling relations, Apples and Oranges is about a grown brother and sister who could not be more different coming together in the face of all that conspires to keep them apart. She has also published Great Dames: What I Learned from Older Women (Crown, 2000) and the bestselling House of Dreams, The Bingham Family of Louisville (Random House, 1989). Ms. Brenner joined the staff of Vanity Fair in 1985; she has also contributed articles to the New York Times Magazine and Vogue.