Lili Anolik

Lili Anolik is an American writer. She is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair.

Early life and education Anolik graduated from Princeton University where she majored in English. At Princeton, she played tennis and in her senior year wrote for The Daily Princetonian.

In 2003, Anolik received a degree from the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences of Boston University.

Career After graduating from Princeton in 2000, Anolik worked for a year at IMG in Los Angeles.

In 2020, Anolik and Ashley West hosted the podcast Once Upon a Time…in the Valley about pornstar Traci Lords.

In 2021, Anolik hosted the podcast Once Upon a Time...at Bennington College a 14 episode podcast about the literary culture at Bennington College in the 1980s.

Personal life Anolik is married to dermatologist Robert Anolik.

Books Didion & Babitz (Atlantic, 2024) Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A. (Scribner, 2019) Dark Rooms (William Morrow, 2015)