JAMIE MALANOWSKI IS THE MANAGING EDITOR of Playboy. A member of the original staff of Spy, where he worked seven years, Jamie has also been an editor at Time and Esquire, and has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Washington Monthly, and many other publications. Jamie is the author of the novels Mr. Stupid Goes to Washington (Birch Lane, 1992) and The Coup (Doubleday, 2007); co-author with Kurt Andersen and Lisa Birnbach of the play and book Loose Lips; co-author, with Martyn Burke, of the HBO movie Pentagon Wars; and co-author, with Susan Morrison, of the humor book Spy High. His articles have been anthologized in Spy: The Funny Years, by Kurt Andersen, Graydon Carter and George Kalogerakis; Killed: Great Journalism Too Hot To Print, edited by David Wallis; Mirth of a Nation, Volume II: The Best Contemporary Humor, edited by Michael J. Rosen; The Playboy Book of True Crime; and The Fun Never Stops!: An Anthology of Comic Art 1991-2006, by Drew Friedman, Daniel Clowes, and Ben Schwartz.

Jamie lives in Westchester County NY with his wife, Ginny, and daughters Molly and Cara.

photo by Brennan Cavanaugh © 2007 Playboy