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Joan Juliet Buck is an American writer, social critic, and actress. She was the editor in chief of French Vogue from 1994 to 2001.
Buck is the only child of Jules Buck (1917–2001), an American film producer, who moved his family to Europe in 1952 "in protest against political repression" in the United States. Her mother was the former Joyce Ruth Getz (aka Joyce Gates, died 1996), a model and actress. John Huston, for whom her father worked as a cameraman, was the best man at her parents' 1945 wedding.
As a child, Buck was cast as a Scots waif in the Walt Disney film Greyfriars... MORE
Joan Juliet Buck is an American writer, social critic, and actress. She was the editor in chief of French Vogue from 1994 to 2001.
Buck is the only child of Jules Buck (1917–2001), an American film producer, who moved his family to Europe in 1952 "in protest against political repression" in the United States. Her mother was the former Joyce Ruth Getz (aka Joyce Gates, died 1996), a model and actress. John Huston, for whom her father worked as a cameraman, was the best man at her parents' 1945 wedding.
As a child, Buck was cast as a Scots waif in the Walt Disney film Greyfriars Bobby.
Dropping out of Sarah Lawrence College to work at Glamour magazine as a book reviewer in 1968, she became the features editor of British Vogue at the age of 23, then a correspondent for Women's Wear Daily in London and Rome. Later Buck was an associate editor of the London Observer. A contributing editor to American Vogue since 1980 and also Vanity Fair, her profiles and essays appeared in The New Yorker, Condé Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisure, and The Los Angeles Times Book Review. As movie critic for American Vogue (1990–1994), she served on the New York Film Festival selection Committee. From 1994 to LESS
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