M.G. Lord’s most recent book is Astro Turf, a family memoir about aerospace culture during the Cold War. She is also the author of Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of Real Doll. Since 1995, she has been a regular contributor to The New York Times Book Review and that paper’s Arts & Leisure section. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including ARTNews, Travel & Leisure, Vogue, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, and The New Yorker. Before becoming a freelance writer, Lord was for twelve years a syndicated political cartoonist and columnist based at Newsday. A graduate of Yale University, she is a trustee of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale and has received resident fellowships at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and other venues.