Leo Lerman (May 23, 1914 – August 22, 1994) was an American writer and editor who worked for Condé Nast Publications for more than 50 years.
[1] Lerman also wrote for the New York Herald Tribune, Harper's Bazaar, Dance Magazine, and Vogue and was the editor of Playbill for decades.
As a child, he accompanied his house-painter grandfather and father on various jobs in upper-class homes.
[5] His partner was Gray Foy (1922-2012), who had a promising career as an artist, specializing in drawings, which was eventually eclipsed by his social life with Lerman: Foy's "Dimensions" was donated to the Museum of Modern Art in New York [6] by actor Steve Martin, Foy's friend.
[8] Meant to be the source material for a novel he never wrote, the journals detail his social and business interactions with a remarkable number of famous and important people who passed through the New York arts scene from the 1940s to the '90s.