Mark Seal joined Vanity Fair as a contributing editor in 2003. His VF stories have included scandal (Bernie Madoff, Tiger Woods, Charlie Sheen, Rupert Murdoch’s divorce, the mysteries of iconic author Harper Lee), murder (the Oscar Pistorius case, the killing of Monaco’s richest woman), business (the insanely rich world of Prince Jefri of Brunei, the battles of the Agnelli family of Italy) and Hollywood (the making of the classics, Pulp Fiction and The Godfather, the strange heist of the 2001 Oscar statuettes). His 2004 VF story, “Prisoner of Denver,” with the late gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson, resulted in the freeing of a young woman serving a life sentence in prison for a murder she didn’t commit. Two of Seal’s VF articles have been expanded into books and optioned for film: Wildflower: An Extraordinary Life and Mysterious Death in Africa, about Joan Root, the legendary wildlife filmmaker and naturalist murdered in her home on Kenya’s Lake Naivasha in 2006, and The Man in the Rockefeller Suit about the infamous con artist and convicted murderer Clark Rockefeller. He has twice been a National Magazine Award finalist for his stories in VF. Prior to joining Vanity Fair, Seal wrote for a variety of national magazines and Texas newspapers and has served as a collaborator on more than 20 nonfiction books for major publishers. Seal lives in Aspen, Colorado, and would appreciate any story ideas at Markseal05@gmail.com.