Joan Juliet Buck

Joan Juliet Buck
Study for a portrait of Buck by Reginald Gray, Paris 1980s (graphite on canvas)
Born	Los Angeles, California
Occupation	Writer, editor, actor
Nationality	American
Years active	1968 - Present

Joan Juliet Buck (born 1948) is an American writer and actress. She was the editor-in-chief of French Vogue from 1994 to 2001, the only American ever to have edited a French magazine. She writes for W magazine and Harper's Bazaar, among other publications and was contributing editor to Vogue and Vanity Fair for many years. The author of two novels, she is releasing a memoir, The Price of Illusion, in March 2017.

Born in 1948, she is the only child of Jules Buck (1917–2001), an American film producer, who moved his family to Europe in 1952 in reaction to the political repression in the United States at the time. Her mother, Joyce Ruth Getz (aka Joyce Gates, died 1996), was a model, actress, and interior designer.John Huston, for whom her father worked as a cameraman, was the best man at her parents' 1945 wedding. Her first language is French and she identifies as Jewish.

Dropping out of Sarah Lawrence College to work at Glamour magazine as a book reviewer in 1968, Buck became the features editor of British Vogue at the age of 23, then a correspondent for Women's Wear Daily in London and Rome. Buck was an associate editor of the London Observer. A contributing editor to American Vogue from 1980 and also Vanity Fair, she also published profiles and essays in The New Yorker,Condé Nast Traveler,Travel + Leisure, and The Los Angeles Times Book Review.