Alfred Gingold

Alfred Gingold’s first book, Items From Our Catalog (Avon, 1982), was on the New York Times Best Seller List for 33 weeks, thirteen of them at number one. His subsequent books include Snooze: The Best of Our Magazine (with John Buskin), The House Trap and Fire in the John. With his wife, Helen Rogan, Gingold wrote The Cool Parents’ Guide to All of New York (City & Company, 1996) and Brooklyn’s Best (City & Company, 1998). The Cool Parents’ Guide is currently in its third edition, published by Rizzoli.

Gingold has written for numerous publications, including Esquire, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, My Generation, The New Republic, The New York Times, New York Woman, Travel & Leisure, Worth and, of course, Queste, the journal of Rolls Royce owners. “Don’t Ask,” his humor column on the Prodigy Internet Service, was named one of the ten funniest sites of 1996 by Yahoo Internet Life. He covered the Westminster Dog Show for Slate in 2002.

Alfred Gingold grew up in New York City and studied theatre and English at Cornell University. He has worked as a director, actor, and teacher in New York and further-flung localities. Today he lives in Brooklyn with his wife, son and their dog, George.