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Holly Peterson is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She serves on the Board of Trustees of the The Storefront Academy, an independent school in Harlem; the Studio Museum in Harlem; and New York Presbyterian Hospital. She is also the New York Times best-selling author of four books. Her latest, a work of social satire, is titled It Happens in the Hamptons, and was published by William Morrow in May of 2017. She has also authored an entertaining book, Assouline’s Smoke & Fire: Recipes and Menus for Entertaining Outdoors, and two previous works of fiction, The Idea of Him and The Manny. She was a Contributing Editor for Newsweek, an Editor-at-Large for Talk magazine and an Emmy Award–winning producer for ABC News, where she spent more than a decade covering everything from global politics to trials of the century. Her writing has been published in the New York Times, Newsweek, Town and Country, Vogue, Departures, Elle Décor, The Daily Beast, Harper’s Bazaar, and numerous other publications.