Beautiful People: My Family and Other Glamorous Varmints

In his wickedly funny memoir reminiscent of David Sedaris and Augusten Burroughs, Simon Doonan revisits the landscape of his youth and displays the irresistible charm that earned him his dedicated audience.

Long before he became a celebrity in his own right—as a bestselling author, the style arbiter of VH1 and America’s Next Top Model, and the marketing genius behind Barneys New York—Simon Doonan was a “scabby knee'd troll” in Reading, England. In Beautiful People, Doonan returns to the work...