

In 1974 Goldsmith became Senior Editor of Harper’s Bazaar, attracting top writers to the publication. Laurent, Giorgio Armani, Pierre Cardin, and Marc Bohan of Dior. In 1968 Goldsmith wrote "Bacall and the Boys," a television special about Lauren Bacall in Paris with then young, unproven avant-garde designers-Yves St. In 1967, after the Tribune failed, Goldsmith provided Felker with the money to purchase the name “New York.” In 1968 she became a founding editor and writer of New York magazine, where she wrote not only about art, but also about the colorful characters in the art world.

The series caught the eye of Clay Felker, editor of the Sunday magazine supplement of the New York Herald Tribune. Pei, George Balanchine and Pablo Picasso, among others. In the late 1960s she initiated the "The Creative Environment" series of the creatie process, based on in-depth interviews with Marcel Breuer, I.M. In her early twenties, she wrote a series of prize-winning profiles of such Hollywood luminaries as Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Joan Crawford, and Audrey Hepburn. Her first assignments as a journalist were in the art field, where she simultaneously amassed an art collection comprising mostly contemporary American painting and sculpture. She was born in New York City and received a Bachelor of Arts from Wellesley College, after which she took art courses at Columbia University. She has received critical and popular acclaim for her best selling books, essays, articles and her philanthropic work. Scott Pilgrim: Scott Pilgrim vs the Universe v.Barbara Goldsmith is an American author, journalist, and philanthropist.The Secret Footballer: What Goes on Tour.Lonely Planet Great Britain's Best Trips.

