David Byars is the Deputy Managing Editor of Vogue and has worked in magazine production for thirty-four years, with a strong emphasis on visual imagery. He was raised in Louisiana, where the antebellum plantation houses along the Mississippi River first sparked his interest in history and architecture. A graduate of Louisiana State University, he moved to New York City in 1982 and currently lives in the historic Bronx neighborhood of Spuyten Duyvil overlooking the Hudson River. He is a board member of Hudson River Heritage, a nonprofit organization in Rhinebeck, New York.
