Lloyd Grove
# Lloyd Grove

Lloyd Bennett Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast, an American news reporting and opinion website focusing on politics and pop culture. He is also a frequent contributor to New York. He was a gossip columnist for New York Daily News before he left on October 9, 2006, and wrote a fortnightly column for Portfolio.com, the web site of Conde Nast Portfolio Magazine, and was a contributing editor for Portfolio Magazine until it shut down in April 2009.

## Early life

Grove was born in California and grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut. He completed his BA in English at Yale University. While at Yale, Grove had a summer job as an assistant for a show business press agent and reported for the Yale Daily News.

## Career

He has written for the Washington Post, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair and Harper's Bazaar.

Since September 2003, Grove has written a weekday column called Lloyd Grove's Lowdown for the New York Daily News.

He has obtained notoriety for his articles on the following:

   * US President George W. Bush's daughter's underage drinking

   * Actors Tim Robbins' and Susan Sarandon's political influences

   * Businessman Taki Theodoracopulos's anti-Israel joke

   * Congressman Jim Moran settling a fight between two girlfriends

   * Outgoing administration's vandalism of Bush White House

   * Olbermann's Worst Person of The World for March 13, 2006
