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![WIRED Magazine cover featuring a baby with a serious expression, sitting with crossed legs. The cover includes a headline quote about autism and vaccination.]()
Wired: The anti-vaccine movement (cover story), Steve Jobs' doctor, and more
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![VANITY FAIR magazine cover featuring Issa Rae, a black woman with long hair, wearing a black blazer, gold metallic strapless top, and high-waisted black pants with a gold belt. The background shows a cityscape and a blue sky.]()
Vanity Fair: Kathryn Hahn, The Sushi Nazi, Pink's Hotdogs and the Crossroads School
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![GQ cover of D'Angelo, a black man wearing a wide-brim hat, a tank top, and a necklace, with a serious expression and a tattoo on their shoulder, in black and white.]()
GQ: Beasts and beauties, renegades and rogues
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![Los Angeles magazine cover titled 'Immigration Los Angeles.' The cover features a red carpet extending into the distance with white stripes, symbolizing division and unity.]()
Los Angeles magazine: Profiles, Q&A's, and a piece about Winnie-the-Pooh
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![The cover of New York magazine featuring a shirtless man with long hair tied back, standing on a skateboard, taking a selfie with a phone, with orange hue lighting and a blurred background. The main headline reads "Living With the Fire" and includes a subtitle about climate change in Los Angeles.]()
New York magazine: Walking Time Bomb: Stacy Title
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![Cover of The New York Times Magazine with the headline "Way to go, Ohio" in large, colorful, cursive font over a cityscape and river background.]()
The New York Times: Dozens of Business, Style and Magazine stories
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![Cover of The New Yorker magazine, February 2, 2004, featuring an illustration of a woman in a white fur coat with her face partially hidden, surrounded by black-and-white cats with piercing yellow eyes.]()
The New Yorker: If I only get one shot, I'll be glad it was this one
Amy Wallace’s 30+ year career writing for marquee magazines and national newspapers
Wallace’s magazine work has appeared in GQ, Wired, The New Yorker, New York, the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Esquire, Details, The Nation, Elle, and other national publications. Two of her profiles – “Hollywood’s Information Man” (Los Angeles, 2001) and “Walking Time Bomb” (New York, 2019) – were nominated for a National Magazine Award. In addition to freelancing, Wallace has been a correspondent at GQ, an editor-at-large at Los Angeles magazine, and a monthly columnist on creativity and innovation (“Prototype”) for the New York Times Sunday Business section. She also served as a senior writer at Conde Nast Portfolio.
Wallace spent 11 years at the Los Angeles Times as a reporter covering state politics, higher education, and the entertainment industry. During that period, 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. Later, she became the Times’ deputy business editor over entertainment and technology coverage. Early in her career she spent two years at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution covering prisons and death row, among other things.
Wallace’s stories and interviews have been included in New Stories We Tell: True Tales by America’s New Generation of Great Women Journalists (2019), 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.
Selected Work
March 2017
The Hollywood Exec and the Hand Transplant That Changed His Life
In just 30 hours, a superfit reality TV producer went from the top of his game to the precipice of death. What happened next would teach him everything about grace, resolve, and the power of love…
September 2001
Is Peter Bart the Most Hated Man in Hollywood?
He knows the movie business as well as anyone, and when he talks, studio chiefs listen. He’s Variety editor-in-chief Peter Bart, and he lives in curious coexistence with the industry he covers…
May 2019
The director Stacy Title is paralyzed and cannot speak. But she is determined to make one final movie…
January 2021
March 2023
And the Oscar Does Not Go To... What it’s like to be a B-List actress in Hollywood
June 2009
Checkmate at the Yellowstone Club
January 1014 | OpEd
Life as a Female Journalist: Hot or Not?
October 2025 | Opinion/Guest Essay
Why Virginia Roberts Giuffre Would Not Stop Talking About Jeffrey Epstein
February 2014
Deep Inside Baz Luhrmann’s Creative Chaos
September 2014
Viola Davis as You’ve Never Seen Her Before: Leading Lady!
February 2015
October 2009
An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endanger Us All
This cover story analyzed how unjustified and unscientific thinking was fueling a growing anti-vaccine moment…
February 2011
October 2015
Sci-Fi’s Hugo Awards and the Battle for Pop Culture’s Soul
A battle over diversity is raging in the world of science fiction. But it impacts the soul of all popular culture…
January 2020
The Mysterious Vision of Jeff Nichols, Hollywood’s Next Blockbuster Auteur
September 2009
The Rise and Fall of the Cincinnati Boner King
Steve Warshak made millions on "natural male enhancement." Now he's doing hard time.
August 2010
The Comedian’s Comedian’s Comedian
He’s a boxer, a Buddhist, a hoops junkie, and a kind of Yoda to every funny person born since 1965 (Sandler, Silverman, Apatow, Gervais, Baron Cohen…). Amy Wallace survives a rare sparring session with Garry Shandling, the reclusive master of American comedy.
November 2010
Violence, Nudity, Adult Content: The Story of Chris Albrecht
For years, Chris Albrecht was unstoppable. He was the man who made HBO, the programming genius who brought us ‘The Sopranos,’ ‘Six Feet Under,’ ‘The Wire,’ and more, revolutionizing the way we watch, and revere, TV. Then, one night in Vegas, he seemed to throw it all away: He roughed up his girlfriend outside the MGM Grand, and his life exploded in a spectacular blaze of shame. More than three years later, he talks for the first time about what happened that night.
February 2011
Charlie Sheen’s Demons: Coke, Hookers, Hospital, Repeat
Charlie Sheen talks to Amy Wallace about his latest bender, his true feelings about sobriety and 'Apocalypse Now,' and the cyclical insanity of his crazy-ass life.
August 2011
Jerry Lewis: The Essence of Comedy
He's the original lord of lowbrow, the king of the pratfall, the last surviving link to the bedrock of American comedy—vaudeville, burlesque, slapstick. Sure, he's ancient, but he's juggling half a dozen new projects and still found time to sit down with Amy Wallace for an eleven-hour interview. Call it the Jerry Lewis Marathon that covered, well, just about everything that's ever been funny.
January 2013
Miss Millennium: A profile of Beyoncé
November 2013
A judge in California finally decided the fate of a violent and damaged child who murdered his neo-Nazi father when he was just 10 years old. Amy Wallace reports on the tragic, impossible case of Jeff and Joseph Hall.
May 2014
The biggest little man in Hollywood (and that’s saying something) is having one gigantic year
December 2014
He was once hailed as the next Marvin Gaye. Then, after his ripped body threatened to overshadow his music, he vanished into addiction. So what the hell was he doing singing his heart out in a Pentecostal church in Stockholm? Amy Wallace witnessed D'Angelo's ecstatic return to the stage—and hung out with the master of the sacred and the profane as he finished his first album in a dozen years.
January 2015
The Long, Strange Purgatory of Casey Kasem
He was America's most beloved deejay, the unmistakable voice who created 'American top 40' and rose to fame on the schmaltzy but irresistible charm of his "long-distance dedications." all of which makes the tabloid circumstances of his demise—an epic family feud waged in streets, courtrooms, and funeral homes from L.A. to Oslo—even more surreal. Amy Wallace investigates the tragic final days (and very weird afterlife) of a radio legend.
March 2015
Conrad Hilton and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Flight (an Oral History)
October 2018
The Time Bandits of Southern California
The true story of a ring of thieves who stole millions of dollars' worth of luxury watches—and the special agent who brought them down.
November 2018
The Extraordinary Vision of Hiro Murai
From Atlanta to "This Is America," it's been a breakout year for Donald Glover's chief collaborator. And the most thrilling part of all? Hiro Murai is just getting started.
