Doon Arbus (born April 3, 1945) is an American writer and journalist.
[1][2] Her play, Third Floor, Second Door on the Right, was produced at the Cherry Lane Theatre by the 2003 New York International Fringe Festival.
[9] She has also organized numerous photographic exhibitions in collaboration with The Metropolitan Museum of Art,[10] the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,[11][12] and the Jeu de Paume,[13] among other institutions.
As a freelance journalist in the mid-1960s, alongside other writers like Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin, and Robert Benton, she contributed to the New York Herald Tribune's Sunday supplement, New York, one of the earliest proponents of New Journalism.
[15][16] Arbus was a longtime collaborator of Richard Avedon, with whom she coauthored the books Alice in Wonderland: The Forming of a Company, the Making of a Play[17] (E. P. Dutton, 1973) and Avedon: The Sixties (Random House, 1999).