David Patrick Columbia
Founder, The New York Social Diary
David Patrick Columbia is the founder and editor of New York Social Diary, a website that chronicles the lives of the Big Apple’s elite. Since graduating from Colby College in 1962, Columbia has led numerous lives: he's been a stockbroker, an owner of a head shop in upstate New York, a sportswear designer, a freelancer (he wrote a firsthand account of one of Truman Capote's "lost weekends"), and a scriptwriter for a courtroom television show. In 1988, Columbia finally found his calling when he collaborated with Debbie Reynolds on her autobiography. In 1994, Columbia began writing the New York Social Diary for Quest Magazine (a condensed version of the website is still printed in Quest every month). The New York Social Diary website was launched in September, 2000. Columbia has since become something of social fixture himself: he's been the subject of articles and blog posts in New York Magazine, Gawker, and the New York Observer.
David Patrick Columbia, on the people who can afford to party without working.
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David Patrick Columbia recalls an early holiday party.
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First, a car. Then, setting about to feed and shelter the needy masses.
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The dangers of debt…
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The son of a chauffeur and a tenement superintendent, David Patrick Columbia came back to New York a different man.
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David Patrick Columbia sees his work as social observation.
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Columbia thinks it’s because we’re looking for the truth about our own lives.
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David Patrick Columbia talks about the joys, struggles and purpose behind writing NewYorkSocialDiary.com, which chronicles New York’s high society.
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David Patrick Columbia talks about the media establishment attacking bloggers, and why he thinks this is wrong.
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