Lucia Adams is an author, a personal biographer and prolific newspaper and magazine writer. She lived in the north of England for many years and lives in Chicago -- though still a New Yorker at heart. She has been a newspaper editor, long time social (OK gossip) columnist and currently writes about classic movies for ClassicChicagoMagazine. She was nominated for an M.F.K. Fisher award for distinguished culinary writing by the James Beard foundation.