Amy Wallace
Amy Wallace is a freelance writer based in Los Angeles. She is an editor-at-large at Los Angeles Magazine and a correspondent for GQ. For about 18 months ending in 2011, she wrote a monthly column on creativity and innovation (called “Prototype”) for the New York Times Sunday Business section.
Previously, she was a senior writer at Conde Nast Portfolio, the new business magazine that launched in May 2007 and closed two years later. She came to Portfolio from the Los Angeles Times, where she was the deputy business editor who ran entertainment and technology coverage. Prior to becoming an editor, she was a senior writer at Los Angeles magazine, where her September 2001 profile of Peter Bart, the editor in chief of the 102-year-old trade paper Daily Variety, was a finalist for both the National Magazine Award and the Gerald F. Loeb Award in 2002.
Wallace began her career as an assistant to New York Times columnist James Reston after graduating cum laude with a B.A. in history from Yale. She then spent two years at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution covering prisons and death row, among other things, and 11 years at the Los Angeles Times covering state politics, higher education, and the entertainment industry.
While at the Times, she shared in two staff-wide Pulitzer Prizes: in 1992,for coverage of the Los Angeles riots, and in 1994, for coverage of the Northridge earthquake.
Wallace’s work has appeared in the New Yorker, Wired, Vanity Fair, GQ, Details, Esquire, the Nation, the New York Times Magazine, Elle, More, InStyle, Reader’s Digest and other national publications. Her stories and interviews have also been included in The Best American Science Writing 2010, The Best American Magazine Writing 2002, The Meanings of Dress, a textbook for design and merchandising students, and The Meaning of Life: Wisdom, Humor, and Damn Good Advice from 64 Extraordinary Lives, a compilation of Esquire’s “What I’ve Learned” columns.
She is not the daughter of Irving Wallace and has not written a book about her affair with Carlos Casteneda (although she has met the lovely woman who did).
You can contact her at amywallace323@gmail.com.
Amy Wallace, this is a superb new site, which brings together and shares your wonderful writing. Simply fantastic!
great site. how can we contact you?
Love your work. Love the site!
Genuinely please to hear the vexatious law suit has been dismissed. its a great day for progressive and brave journalism.
Love the link to Harold and the purple crayon. I’ve just viewed it – superb! I guess we could all do with a serving of Harold’s ability to shape his environment!
Best. MDog
Read you in a mag @ the Dr’s. About Harold. He (God) is the rewarder of those who earnestly seek Him. You are already hearing His voice. It’s Resurrection Sunday (April 4). Go and meet Him. Ask Him where you should go and listen for His voice. He will never leave you nor forsake you. You can trust Him. His NAME is “Faithful and True.”
Rosanne
(as if I read people in mags and then write them)
check out the book
brilliant, inspiring, a cut above the rest…original and the best. Thank you for great reads.
Now that I’ve discovered you I will watch for your weekly column in nyt.
Thank you! But just so you don’t drive yourself crazy: It’s a monthly, not a weekly, column.
What a treat, you are wonderful!!
The writting I feel and understand, the amount of engaging work in your impressive portfolios, blows me away. Bravo!, looking forward to reading what the future brings you and your fans
Hi,
Our company designs and makes one of the highest-end children’s lines from the Cheapest materials…old and worn sweaters. What we save on materials, we spend on design and labor.
Although our business is located in Toronto, Canada, 90% of our sales are in the USA. We are carried by great US retailers like: Gilt.com, Anthropologie, The Wynn Hotel, West Elm etc…
Everything is designed and made in our Toronto studio. This year (only our 2nd year in business), we’re on pace to sell between 20,000 and 30,000 units with anticipated gross sales between $500,000 and $750,000 USD (mostly in the US but also Canada, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, UK).
I know there’s a great story here!
Amy Wallace
Nothing more than a mouthpiece for corporations.
I feel sorry that you have sold out any bit of journalistic integrity you may have once had for a few bucks.
“Whaa, you can’t sue me because I live in California”.
One hour of real research by a junior high school reporter would show your story on vaccinations to be one of fiction.
Do the world a favor and encourage anyone in your bloodline to be vaccinated as many times as possible. The less of your dna the better.
You are nothing but a yellow journalist that spits out propaganda shame on you … Amy Wallace maybe you should be the first person to take the stress shot they are trying to shoot the public up with…I do believe it is a herpes virus that will eat at your brain ….but then again ALL the vaccines are safe right? guess you didn’t think the bogus vaccine piece you wrote a year ago wouldn’t come back to bite you in the butt huh? You are nothing more than a talking head for the Corporations guess they paid you lots of $$$….even though the court case was not overturned your dirty deeds and lies are being exposed…..the evil that you work for Amy likes to take down people like you first so have fun LIAR!
Just what I thought.
Nothing but a coward.
Congrats on lying in print and then getting a free pass. You take money to write lies ? Excellent ! I would like to pay you good money to lie about journalists who print lies for money – care to apply ?
DING DING DING! We have a winner!
How was I able so confidently to predict “Topic A”? Simple — there are very few subjects that bring out the truly committed crazy, and you have only written about one of them. If you savor this kind of spittle-flecked feedback, may I suggest you now turn your pen to the 9/11 truth movement?
Kidding.
As I may have said before, this kind of reaction is exactly how you know you’ve done some good. Keep it up.
Amy,
The comments on your site demonstrate the confidence and resilience in your approach to progressive journalism. Many would choose not to publish the ranting of some, and publish only the accolades of others.
Whilst several contributors provide a non-politicised and object view, others struggle to have such composure and objectivity in their submissions.
It’s evident we don’t have the demographic profile or specific ‘interests’ of Tim, Sadie and Henry; however, one might speculate they attend the same crèche, or perhaps, if more mature in years, the same institution. What ever the facts, such reactions demonstrate that your work engages and challenges on many levels. Maintain your moral compass and continue to challenge the thinking of others!
You are pathetic excuse of a journalist. Shame on you and your sad, sad, soul for going after the NVIC. How dare you attack, in writing, a woman who is pushing to further educate parents about the risks of childhood immunizations. Get a life.
And, all this talk of “progressive journalism” and “many would choose not to publish the ranting of some, and publish only the accolades of others” is ridiculous!
“Progressive” would be if you took the time to research and interview those on the other side- those who are not siding with the mega-pharma companies and big corporations. It is the easy way out, to write a piece FOR the drug companies, they are the big dogs, with all the power. They CONTROL so much of the media. YOU are a coward and AFRAID to write a truthful and investigative and eye-opening piece about the tragedies that come from vaccinations AND/OR the billions of dollars that are fueling both the drug companies and the government to push for more shots for innocent children.
It’s easy to see- you are a sell out, writing for the big dogs, and shitting on the little people.
Excellent story about Amy Bishop in Wired. It was the only one I read entirely in this issue.
Amy:
I sure you get many pitches every day for your Prototype column so I’ll be brief. I have invented and am marketing a patented product (2 patents), the OrbitBrush, that solves the problem of brushing tangled hair. The OrbitBrush can be seen at http://www.orbitbrush.com. I invented it because I am the father of two beautiful daughters and I brushed their hair ever morning as they were growing up, and every morning was miserable- pulling hair, pain, tears. Please take a look at our website and if interested I can be reached by email or phone at 914-271-7521.
Thanks/George Stydahar
I just read your D’Angelo interview piece for GQ. It was fabulous! I don’t know what sort of awards are out there for that sort of writing, but you should get one! One of the best music-related long-form articles I’ve ever read, if not the best.
Thanks so much, Marc.
Amy, I just want to say thank you for the D’Angelo article. You are an amazing writer. My friend recently came to me with crazy energy about how he and D’Angelo is the same height and D is making a come back. My friend gave me a copy of GQ and said “you need to read this”. So we went to UNO’S to watch the Celtics vs Heat game and ordered appetizers… All I remember for the night was the mood the article put me in. it set such a life reflective tone for me that I was really thinking about my struggles and my own genius blockage too…I have been telling my friends about the article and was advised to write you to express my gratitude for article…THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I’m gonna read it again this weekend…the elements of human struggle seem to be relative to everyone’s journey – Ibraaheem
I echo “Marc’s” comment. Your D’Angelo piece in GQ was exceptional! So much so that I had to research your name. How fantastic are you?!?!? Your writing is beyond engaging. Not only were there moments of laughter and tears I also felt we were side by side. In essence, you made me feel I was somehow part of your interview. What a treasure you are!