![]() Between 19, she wrote Little Gloria…Happy at Last (an account of the 1934 custody battle over child heiress Gloria Vanderbilt between her mother, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt and her aunt, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney), Johnson v. Goldsmith's books and her journalistic writing overlapped frequently thereafter. Goldsmith's research on artists, art collectors, and museums that Goldsmith wrote for New York, Harper's, and other magazines inspired her first book, The Straw Man, a novel based on the New York art world published in 1975. In 1968, she helped found New York magazine and in the early 1970s she was a senior editor at Harper's Bazaar. By the early 1960s, Goldsmith was a columnist for Town & Country magazine, writing about art and culture and profiling famous artists, architects, actors, and filmmakers. In 1954, she began working for Women's Home Companion magazine, where she interviewed celebrities such as Clark Gable and John Huston. In 1953, she graduated from Wellesley College with a bachelor's degree in English and Art History. ![]() She was raised in New Rochelle, New York, where she attended public schools, graduating from New Rochelle High School. Goldsmith was born Barbara Joan Lubin to self-made business executive Joseph Lubin and Evelyn (Cronson) Lubin, a former art teacher, in New York City on May 18, 1931. Barbara Goldsmith was an author, journalist, and philanthropist who lived and worked in New York City and East Hampton, New York. ![]()
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