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Steven Gaines
Born1946
OccupationAuthor, journalist, radio show host
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
Years active1970s–present
Notable worksPhilistines at the Hedgerow: Passion and Property in the Hamptons
The Sky's the Limit: Passion and Property in Manhattan
Website
stevengaines.com

Steven Gaines (born 1946) is an American author, journalist, and radio show host. His 13 books include Philistines at the Hedgerow: Passion and Property in the Hamptons; The Sky's the Limit: Passion and Property in Manhattan;

The Love You Make: An Insider's Story of The Beatles; Heroes and Villains: The True Story of the Beach Boys; Marjoe, the biography of evangelist Marjoe Gortner; Fool's Paradise: Players, Poseurs and the Culture of Excess in South Beach; and the memoirs, One of These Things First and "The Greta Garbo Home for Wayward Boys and Girls." His 1991 biography of the fashion designer Halston (Simply Halston) was the basis for Ryan Murphy's 2021 Netflix series Halston, for which Ewan McGregor won an Emmy Award for Best Actor at the 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards.[1] [2][3]
In April of 1994 Gaines released "All You Need Is Love," a book of interviews with the Beatles and their circle used in the writing of "The Love You Make."

Gaines was a contributing editor at New York magazine and his journalism has appeared in Vanity Fair, The New York Observer, The New York Times, Los Angeles, Worth, and Connoisseur.

From 2003 to 2010 Gaines hosted a weekly, live roundtable radio interview show from the Hamptons called Sunday Brunch Live from the American Hotel in Sag Harbor that aired from Memorial Weekend to Labor Day on a local

National Public Radio
affiliate.

Life

Gaines was born and brought up in the

Brooklyn, New York and attended Erasmus Hall High School and New York University, where he studied with film director Martin Scorsese. His father was a school teacher and child guidance counselor, and his mother a bookkeeper. When he was 15 years old, after a suicide attempt because he was gay, he was voluntarily hospitalized at the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic in Manhattan, which is the subject of his memoir, One of These Things First.[4][5]

He graduated near the bottom of his class at Erasmus Hall, and flunked out of Temple University, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was in Philadelphia that he met children's TV star Gene London who encouraged him to write.

Gaines was working in a small auction gallery in 1971 when he met former child evangelist

Academy Award
helped promote the book Marjoe into a religion bestseller and establish Gaines' career as a writer.

The same year Marjoe was published, Gaines became editor of Circus, a national teeny-bopper rock and roll magazine, and he also began a six-year run as the "Top of the Pop" columnist for the New York Sunday News, on alternate Sundays, dual positions that gave him a catbird seat in the fast lane of the rock and roll business during the golden era of the seventies.

Gaines spent a year on the road living with Alice Cooper, and in 1976 he published Me, Alice, by Alice Cooper with Steven Gaines, the first autobiography of a rock star. Published only in hardcover, the book has since become a collectors' item and sells for up to $2500 a copy.

In 1978 Gaines met Robert Jon Cohen, a 21-year-old

East Hampton, New York, where he wrote the international best-seller The Love You Make: An Insiders Story of the Beatles, with Beatle insider Peter Brown. Published in 1983, The Love You Make was on the New York Times Hardcover bestseller list for 16 weeks.[6][7]

Career

Gaines began his journalism career as the "Top of the Pop" columnist for the New York Daily News. In the early part of his career he wrote several books about the music business, including Alice Cooper's autobiography, Me, Alice; The Love You Make, a biography of The Beatles; and Heroes and Villains, a biography of The Beach Boys, before briefly switching his focus to fashion designers with biographies on Halston and Calvin Klein.[8]

In 1978 he wrote the lyrics for two major disco hits, "New York at Night" and "Like An Eagle," composed by Village People creator Jacques Morali.

In 1980 he published a controversial "roman a clef" called The Club about the nightclub

velvet mafia" in his "New York Sunday News" column in reference to the Robert Stigwood Organization, a British record company and management group, but the term soon began to be used to describe the influential gay crowd who ran Hollywood and the fashion industry.[7]

Gaines is best known for his 1998 social and cultural history of the East End of Long Island called Philistines at the Hedgerow: Passion and Property in the Hamptons.[9]

In 1993, he co-founded the Hamptons International Film Festival.

In 1999, he created one of the first online magazines, iHamptons.com.

In 2021 his book, Simply Halston, was made into a Netflix television series starring Ewan McGregor, who won the Emmy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of the fashion designer. The Netflix series was also nominated for a Writers Guild Award for best screenplay adapted from a book.[10][11][12]

Books

  • Marjoe, the biography of evangelist Marjoe Gortner
  • Me, Alice, the autobiography of rock star Alice Cooper
  • Discotheque, a novel
  • The Club, a novel (with Robert Jon Cohen)
  • Another Runner in the Night, a novel
  • The Love You Make: An Insider's Story of The Beatles (with Peter Brown)
  • Heroes and Villains: The True Story of The Beach Boys
  • Simply Halston: The Untold Story
  • Obsession: The Lives and Times of Calvin Klein (with Sharon Churcher)
  • Philistines at the Hedgerow: Passion and Property in the Hamptons
  • The Sky's the Limit: Passion and Property in Manhattan
  • Fool's Paradise: Players, Poseurs and the Culture of Excess in South Beach
  • One of These Things First, a memoir
  • All You Need Is Love: An Oral History of The Beatles (with Peter Brown)[13][14]

References

  1. ^ "Ryan Murphy's Halston is a shapeless, surprisingly timid biodrama". 14 May 2021. Retrieved 31 August 2023.
  2. ^ https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/14/style/halston-netflix-fashion.html?searchResultPosition=4
  3. ^ https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/halston/s01
  4. ^ "Author Steven Gaines Opens Up About New Book, Hamptons Life". Patch.com. September 1, 2016. Retrieved August 31, 2023.
  5. ^ "Convincing a Suicidal Teen He Can Wish the Gay Away". The Advocate. August 23, 2016. Retrieved August 31, 2023.
  6. ^ "Steven Gaines gives insider's guide to The Hamptons". CNN. August 3, 1998. Retrieved August 31, 2023.
  7. ^ a b "Drugs, Disco, and a Dead Body: Five Outrageous Studio 54 Stories". Vanity Fair. May 14, 2021. Retrieved August 31, 2023.
  8. ^ "Out East End: Steven Gaines, 'Simply Halston' Author". Dan's Papers. May 2, 2021. Retrieved August 31, 2023.
  9. ^ "Steven Gaines: The Man Who Wrote the Book on the Hamptons".
  10. ^ "Ready for the TV Return of Designer Halston and His Outrageous Boyfriend?". Logo TV. March 18, 2019. Retrieved August 31, 2023.
  11. ^ "Inside Halston's Destructive Real-Life Relationship With Victor Hugo". Vanity Fair. May 14, 2021. Retrieved August 31, 2023.
  12. ^ "'Simply Halston' By Steven Gaines Soon To Be A Netflix Series". 27East. March 19, 2020. Retrieved August 31, 2023.
  13. ^ "New Book Will Reveal Never-Before-Shared Secrets of Life with The Beatles". Yahoo! News. June 14, 2023. Retrieved August 31, 2023.
  14. ^ "New Book Will Reveal Never-Before-Shared Secrets of Life with The Beatles". People. June 14, 2023. Retrieved August 31, 2023.

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