Michael Shnayerson

Michael Shnayerson, a longtime contributing editor to Vanity Fair, is the author of Irwin Shaw; The Car That Could; The Killers Within, coauthored with Mark J. Plotkin, and Coal River, which recounted the efforts of Appalachian lawyers and grassroots groups to stop the devastating practice of mountaintop coal removal in southern West Virginia. Shnayerson’s passion for those environmental activists was one reason Harry Belafonte chose him to collaborate on his autobiography. Shnayerson lives in New York.

Before I Forget

Before I Forget

B. Smith and Dan Gasby with Michael Shnayerson
My Song

My Song

Harry Belafonte, with Michael Shnayerson