Steven Gaines is an American author and a journalist. His 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; and Marjoe, the biography of evangelist Marjoe Gortner. "Fool's Paradise: Players, Poseurs and the Culture of Excess in South Beach", was published by Crown in 2009. 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. 

January 1st, 1946 in Brooklyn (Age 78)