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Mary Lisa Gavenas

Mary Lisa Gavenas
Photograph by Jas Gardner

Mary Lisa Gavenas

Mary Lisa Gavenas, author of Color Stories: Behind the Scenes in America's Billion-Dollar Beauty Industry, has worked as both a beauty editor and scholar of the beauty industry—especially as it relates to cultural history—and was recently named a Fellow at the Leon Levy Center for Biography. A former editor at Glamour, In Style, Mirabella, and a columnist at Elle, she was a member of the advisory board for The Dove Report: Challenging Beauty and has been cited as an expert source in media ranging from The New York Times to BBC-4. Visit her at the Gotham Center for New York City History: www.GothamCenter.org.

Color Stories is now available in eBook
Sep 24, 2008
Color Stories will be released on September 14, 2007 in Trade Paperback
Sep 14, 2007
Color Stories is now available in Trade Paperback
Sep 14, 2007
Color Stories will be released on September 14, 2007 in
Sep 14, 2007
Color Stories is now available in
Sep 14, 2007
Excerpt:
Introduction from Color Stories
Prior to Dec 19, 2008