Bob Colacello was born in Brooklyn and raised in Long Island, New York. In 1969, he graduated from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and two years later completed an MFA in Film at Columbia University School of the Arts. He was the editor of Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine and then worked for Vanity Fair until 2017, writing profiles and investigative pieces on cultural, social and political subjects. His memoir Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up (1990) was acclaimed by The New York Times as ‘the best-written and the most killingly observed’ book on Warhol’s inner circle.