Lloyd Bennett Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast, an American news reporting and opinion website focusing on politics and pop culture. He is also a frequent contributor to New York. He was a gossip columnist for New York Daily News before he left on October 9, 2006, and wrote a fortnightly column for Portfolio.com, the web site of Conde Nast Portfolio Magazine, and was a contributing editor for Portfolio Magazine until it shut down in April 2009.[1]
Lloyd Grove | |
|---|---|
| Born | Lloyd Bennett Grove California, United States |
| Occupation | Writer, editor, journalist |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | American |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Genre | Politics, journalism |
| Notable works | The Daily Beast |
Early life
editGrove was born in California and grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut. He completed his BA in English at Yale University. While at Yale, Grove had a summer job as an assistant for a show business press agent and reported for the Yale Daily News.[2]
Career
editHe has written for the Washington Post, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair and Harper's Bazaar.[3]
Since September 2003, Grove has written a weekday column called Lloyd Grove's Lowdown for the New York Daily News.
He has obtained notoriety for his articles on the following:[2]
- US President George W. Bush's daughter's underage drinking
- Actors Tim Robbins' and Susan Sarandon's political influences
- Businessman Taki Theodoracopulos's anti-Israel joke
- Congressman Jim Moran settling a fight between two girlfriends
- Outgoing administration's vandalism of Bush White House[4]
- Olbermann's Worst Person of The World for March 13, 2006[citation needed]
References
edit- ^ Grove, Lloyd (October 9, 2006). "Online lesson in lousy Mann-ers". New York Daily News, p. 23.
- ^ a b Watters, Susan (September 2003) W article, Lloyd Almighty. Retrieved on November 21, 2006.
- ^ Grove, Lloyd (September 26, 2005). "Kerry's not- so-amazing race, on film ". New York Daily News Archived 2006-07-04 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved on November 21, 2006.
- ^ Lauerman, Kerry and Montgomery, Alicia (May 23, 2001) Salon.com The White House vandal scandal that wasn't Archived 2007-12-06 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved on November 14, 2007.