Critic, journalist, novelist Steve Szilagyi is the author of Photographing Fairies (Ballantine, 1992), and co-author, with Bill Mesce, Jr., of The Advocate (Bantam, 2000).

Ohio-born Szilagyi (pronounced Sil-AH-jee) graduated with honors from Columbia University, winning the Columbia Bennett Cerf Award for Fiction for his unpublished story collection "The Night Sophia Loren's Dress Caught Fire in a Restaurant".

A painter and illustrator, Szilagyi has published drawings in New York Magazine and other national publications.