Kim Masters
'09 Festival Blogger
Kim Masters formerly covered the business of entertainment for NPR and has been a contributing editor at Time, Esquire and Vanity Fair. Her work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Boston Globe and the Philadelphia Inquirer. Masters is the author of The Keys to the Kingdom: The Rise of Michael Eisner and the Fall of Everybody Else (2000, HarperCollins) and co-author with Nancy Griffin of the best-selling and award-winning Hit & Run: How Jon Peters and Peter Guber Took Sony for a Ride in Hollywood (1996, Simon & Schuster). From 1990 through 1996, Masters covered politics for the Washington Post's Style Section. Throughout her career, she has covered a variety of beats, from legal affairs and education to the Supreme Court. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter.