Gioia Diliberto
<p>Gioia Diliberto is a journalist, biographer, and novelist. She is the author of the biographies <em>Paris without End: The True Story of Hemingway's First Wife</em>, <em>A Useful Woman: The Early Life of Jane Addams</em>, and <em>Debutante: The Story of Brenda Frazier</em> and the novels <em>I Am Madame X </em>and <em>The Collection</em>. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including the <em>New York Times</em>, <em>Los Angeles Times</em>, the <em>Chicago Tribune</em>, <em>Smithsonian</em>, and <em>Vanity Fair</em>, and she is a visiting lecturer in writing at the Savannah College of Art and Design and DePaul University. She lives in Chicago.</p>