Joan Juliet Buck

Did you know?!

1. A change of course

   Buck was French Vogue's editor-in-chief between 1994 and 2001. She turned down the offer twice before she accepted the job.

2. 

   First role

   Buck was given the part of a Scots waif in Greyfriars Bobby, a Walt Disney film, when she was a child.

3. 

   Early training

   In 2002 Buck took up the study of acting. Nora Ephron cast her in the 2009 movie Julie & Julia, where she played Madame Elisabeth Brassart, who ran the famed Le Cordon Bleu cooking school.

4. Behind the camera

   Buck was among many writers hired to adapt D. M. Thomas's novel The White Hotel for film. Thomas called her version "faithful and intelligent," but the film has never been made.

5. A change of course

   Buck left Sarah Lawrence College in 1968 for a book reviewer job at Glamour magazine. She later worked as London correspondent for Interview magazine, then became British Vogue's features editor at 23.