Penelope Rowlands is an Anglo-American author, editor, and journalist best known for her 2005 biography, A Dash of Daring: Carmel Snow and Her Life in Fashion, Art, and Letters,[1] about the Irish-born editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar (from 1934 to 1958).
Suzy Menkes wrote in the International Herald Tribune that "Penelope Rowlands tells a dense, fast-paced story and deftly puts it in the context of magazine history.... Carmel Snow comes vividly to life.
The anthology featured writing by Edmund White, Diane Johnson, the Cuban novelist Zoé Valdés, Judith Thurman, the Iraqi-born Assyrian editor Samuel Shimon and a homeless French blogger, among others.
50 Years After the Band Arrived in America, Writers, Musicians, and Other Fans Remember, with contributions by Gay Talese, Cyndi Lauper, Billy Joel, and Greil Marcus.
The cover design of the anthology features a photograph of a young Rowlands, screaming and holding a sign, previously published in the New York Times.