Leslie Ben­netts is the author of the nation­al best­seller The Fem­i­nine Mis­take as well as a long­time Van­i­ty Fair writer and for­mer New York Times reporter. At Van­i­ty Fair she wrote many movie star cov­er sto­ries in addi­tion to arti­cles on sub­jects rang­ing from priest pedophil­ia to U.S. antiter­ror­ism pol­i­cy, and she was the first woman ever to cov­er a pres­i­den­tial cam­paign at the New York Times. Ben­netts has also writ­ten for many oth­er mag­a­zines, includ­ing New York, Vogue, More, The Nation, and Glamour.