Sebastian Junger's 1997 book, The Perfect Storm, catapulted the first-time author to the sort of celebrity for which most writers hunger their entire lives. His book about a sea tragedy rode the waves of the New York Times bestseller list for months....

For the author of The Perfect Storm, the truth about people is best found in the line of Fire SEBASTIAN JUNGER'S BEDROOM--THE ONE IN HIS PARENTS' HOUSE, WHERE HE STILL SLEEPS FROM TIME TO TIME--LOOKS OUT ON A LUSH, VERDANT LANDSCAPE. ABOVE...

Life Story Born: 17 January 1962, Belmont, Massachusetts. Family: Father, Miguel, physicist specialising in subaquatic acoustics; mother, Ellen Junger, artist. One younger sister, Carlotta, art director with a travel-guide publishers in London. Education: Shady Hill School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Wesleyan...

How do you know you’ve arrived? When you don’t have to leave the Hamptons for anything so pedestrian as a desk job! Today, model Christie Brinkley, horsey mayoral daughter Georgina Bloomberg, heiress-confectioner Dylan Lauren and swimming-pool chronicler Kelly Klein show up to a screening of...

Last Tuesday, April 26, a disgraced former New York Times Magazine writer named Michael Finkel was doing his best Sebastian Junger imitation, chopping wood on his 51-acre property just outside of Bozeman, Mont."This is probably my favorite thing to do. Have you ever chopped wood?"...