David Kamp

DAVID KAMP has been a writer and editor for Vanity Fair and GQ for more than a decade, specializing in writing about the arts. His 2004 Vanity Fair article about Johnny Cash's last years was nominated for a National Magazine Award, and "The Rock Snob's Dictionary," a feature he co-created for the magazine, was selected by guest editor Nick Hornby for the anthology Da Capo Best Music Writing 2001. Kamp is also the co-author of the book version of The Rock Snob's Dictionary and its sequel, The Film Snob's Dictionary. He began his career in the late 1980s at Spy magazine, the New York satirical monthly. Kamp lives in New York City with his wife and two children.