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Polly Devlin

Writer

Polly Devlin is an author, journalist, broadcaster, filmmaker, art critic and part-time professor at Barnard College. Polly has had a remarkable career, taking her from her rural roots in County Tyrone in Ireland to the world of arts and letters in London, New York, and Paris. In her first job as features editor for Vogue, she interviewed many major personalities of the 1960’s, including Bob Dylan, John Lennon, and Janis Joplin. In addition to her acclaimed books, All Of Us There, The Far Side of the Lough and Dora: or The Shifts of the Heart, she is also the author of the Vogue Book of Fashion Photography, a guide book to Dublin and a publication for the National Gallery of Ireland on their ceramic collection.