Joan Juliet Buck is an American born writer, social critic, and performer, who edited Paris Vogue for seven years. She is the only member of Pen, WGA, and SAG , to also be in the best-dressed list Hall of Fame. Her father, the producer Jules Buck, moved from Hollywood in 1952 to Paris, and later London. A child actor, she was a Scots waif in the Walt Disney film "Greyfriars Bobby".
Dropping out of Sarah Lawrence College to work at Glamour magazine, she became Features Editor of British Vogue at the age of 23, then Correspondent of Women`s Wear Daily in London , Rome and Milan, then Associate editor of the London Observer Magazine. A contributing editor to American Vogue since 1980, and then to Vanity Fair, her profiles and essays have also appeared in The New Yorker, Conde Nast Traveler , Travel+Leisure , and The Los Angeles Times Book Review. Her novels about multicultural expatriates are : "The Only Place To Be" (Random house, 1982) and "Daughter Of The Swan" (Weidenfeld , 1987) .
She is one of the many who adapted D.M.Thomas`s "The White Hotel", a version that Thomas called "faithful and intelligent",but the film has never been made.

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