Biography

Her husband, Clay Felker, teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, school of journalism.

Margaret Mead was her mentor.

Wrote "The Secret of Grey Gardens", a cover story for the 10 January 1972 issue of New York magazine, that brought the living conditions of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's aunt Edith Bouvier Beale and cousin Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale to the public eye. The lives of the aunt and cousin were later immortalized in the film, Grey Gardens (1975).

On self-respect: Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect you have enough, and when you have enough, you have self-respect.

On growth: If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living.

On imagination: Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.