Flora Collins’ Debut Thriller ‘Nanny Dearest’

I watched novelist Flora Collins grow up. Her mother Amy Fine Collins is a former colleague of mine at Vanity Fair, and a friend. I always thought of Flora as Eloise. Indeed, her mother—long, lean, lovely, deeply stylish, deeply talented Amy who is not only a writer herself but also an official arbiter of the International Best Dressed List—is a kind of combination of fashion editor, Halston confidant and Best-Dressed-Listed D.D. Ryan and the long, lean, lovely, deeply stylish, deeply talented Kay Thompson who wrote the Eloise books after Ryan “godmothered” them into being by introducing Thompson to the illustrator… Read Full Article