Liz Brown is the author of Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire. Her writing has appeared in 4Columns, Bookforum, Elle Decor, frieze, London Review of Books, Los Angeles Times, New York Times Book Review, Slate, and been anthologized in Culture Is Not Always Popular: Fifteen Years of Design Observer. The recipient of a Brown Foundation fellowship at the Dora Maar House and a Wallis Annenberg Research Grant, she has been a visiting writer at Wesleyan University and a faculty member in the International Center for Photography/Bard MFA program in Advanced Photographic Studies. She lives in Los Angeles.