Steven Gaines is the twice New York Times bestselling author of Philistines at the Hedgerow: Passion and Property in the Hamptons and The Love You Make. He has also written Marjoe, the biography of evangelist Marjoe Gortner; Me, Alice, the autobiography of rock star Alice Cooper; The Love You Make: An Insider's Story of the Beatles (with Peter Brown); Heroes and Villain: True Story of the Beach Boys; Simply Halston: The Untold Story; Obsession: The Lives and Times of Calvin Klein; The Sky's the Limit: Passion and Property in Manhattan; Fool's Paradise: Players, Poseurs, and the Culture of Excess in South Beach; a memoir One of These Things First, and the novels The Club and Another Runner in the Night. Steven Gaines currently resides in the Hamptons in the small community of Wainscott.