Joan Juliet Buck

Joan Juliet Buck (born 1948) is an American writer and actress. She was the editor-in-chief of French Vogue from 1994 to 2001, the only American ever to have edited a French magazine. She was contributing editor to Vogue and Vanity Fair for many years, and writes for Harper's Bazaar. The author of two novels, she published a memoir, The Price of Illusion, in 2017. In 2020, she was nominated for the Pushcart Prize for her short story, “Corona Diary.” Early life and family Born in 1948, she is the only child of Jules Buck (1917–2001), an American film producer, who moved his family to Europe in 1952 in reaction to the political repression in the United States at the time. Her mother, Joyce Ruth Getz (aka Joyce Gates, died 1996), was a child model and actress, and interior designer. Jules Buck served in the Signal Corps with John Huston, during the war, and he subsequently served as a cameraman for the latter. Huston was the best man at her parents' 1945 wedding, and Joan Juliet learned to cook from Ricki Huston. Buck grew up in Cannes, Paris, and London. As a teenager she met Tom Wolfe and became the subject of his piece, "The Life and Hard Times of a Teenage London Society Girl," which he republished in The Pump House Gang. Buck's first language is French and she identifies as Jewish.