For the project, I was lucky to spend two days with Army, who had been a decades-long friend of my mother's within the very specific subculture of glamorous-but-workaday, pen-pushing Old (and Middle Distance) Hollywood, which I grew up in. The coffee-table sized volume, with a foreword by Susan Orlean, and 22 extraordinary illustrations, each by a different artist, contained profiles of diverse American achievers (all of whom had been AmEx members from the very beginning), written by such writers as Veronica Chambers, Jesse Kornbluth, and Jeremy Gerard. Last summer I was fortunate enough to be able to contribute a profile of Army Archerd to American Express's exquisite 50th Anniversary book Extraordinary Lives: Members Since 1958, which AmEx created and sent, during the 2008-9 holiday season, to its 50-year-long members.
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