


She was a senior editor at Harper's Bazaar in the early 1970s, but soon left to write the novel The Straw … More Man. She wrote for The New York Herald Tribune and then became one of the founding editors of New York magazine. Later, she worked at Town and Country, where she started a series called The Creative Environment, for which she interviewed important figures in the arts. After college, she worked for Art News as a critic before becoming an editor at Woman's Home Companion, where she created an entertainment section. She received a bachelor's degree in English and art history from Wellesley College in 1953. Barbara Goldsmith was born Barbara Joan Lubin on in Manhattan, New York.
