Steven Gaines was born on 1946 and is an American author, journalist, and radio show host.
11 Facts About Steven Gaines
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Steven Gaines's books include Philistines at the Hedgerow: Passion and Property in the Hamptons, The Love You Make: An Insider's Story of The Beatles, Heroes and Villains: The True Story of the Beach Boys, and Marjoe, the biography of evangelist Marjoe Gortner.
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From 2003 to 2010 Steven Gaines hosted a weekly, live roundtable radio interview show from the Hamptons called Sunday Brunch Live from the American Hotel in Sag Harbor that aired from Memorial Weekend to Labor Day on a local National Public Radio affiliate.
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Steven Gaines was born and brought up in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn, New York and attended Erasmus Hall High School and New York University, where he studied with film director Martin Scorsese.
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Steven Gaines's father was a school teacher and child guidance counselor, and his mother was a bookkeeper.
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Steven Gaines graduated near the bottom of his class at Erasmus Hall, and flunked out of Temple University, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Steven Gaines was working in a small auction gallery in 1971 when he met former child evangelist Marjoe Gortner at Max's Kansas City, a New York restaurant and club.
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In 1978 Steven Gaines met Robert Jon Cohen, a 21-year-old Studio 54 bartender, with whom he collaborated on a book called The Club, a thinly-veiled roman a clef about Studio 54.
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In 1973, the same year Marjoe was published, Steven Gaines became editor of Circus, a national teeny-bopper rock and roll magazine, and he began a four-year run as the "Top of the Pop" columnist for the New York Sunday News, on alternate Sundays, dual positions that gave him a catbird seat in the fast lane of the rock and roll business during the golden era of the seventies.
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Steven Gaines wrote the international best-seller, published in 1983, The Love You Make: An Insiders Story of the Beatles, with Beatle insider Peter Brown.
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Steven Gaines is best known for his 1998 social and cultural history of the East End of Long Island called Philistines at the Hedgerow: Passion and Property in the Hamptons.