BIOGRAPHY

SUE HOSTETLER is an author and editor, a magazine writer and a television personality, specializing in fashion, interior design and home décor. Currently, SUE is hosting a new tv  show, PLUM HOMES WITH SUE HOSTETLER, on the PLUM TV NETWORK, showcasing extravagant real estate all over the country, and intimate interviews with the owners, often bold-faced names.

SUE has also joined the masthead of BESPOKE MAGAZINE, the premiere luxury magazine published in the Middle East.  Her column, THE AESTHETE, explores the witty, whimsical and very entertaining side of a number of pop culture.

SUE is the author of two books, with another being published fall
2009, URBAN VISIONARIES, from Random House. HIP HOLLYWOOD HOMES
(Random House, 2006) profiles 20 of the most influential style makers
and trendsetters in Los Angeles that live in architecturally significant and historically important homes, with an introduction by Courtney Cox Arquette.

OCEANS (Rizzoli, 2002) featured images of the ocean by 80 of the most celebrated contemporary photographers: Minor White, Harry Callahan, Brett Weston, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Andreas Gursky and Moriko Mori, among many others.

Robert Redford wrote the introduction; Jean-Michel Cousteau wrote the foreward; and the New York Times and Vanity Fair photo critic Vicki Goldberg contributed an essay about the photographs. Charitable auctions at Sotheby's in New York and Butterfield's in San Francisco (organized by Sue in conjunction with publication) benefited the Natural Resources Defense Council.

As Style Editor for the revered ASPEN MAGAZINE, SUE HOSTETLER covers the international fashion scene.  Also a Contributing Editor at GOTHAM MAGAZINE, SUE produces and writes the home and personality pieces on prominent New Yorkers. Most recently, Sue contributed a cover story on the notable contemporary artist Donald Baechler for Gotham's annual special Yearbook Issue, and another comprehensive piece in the December/January Issue about Art Basel.
           
In 2005 and 2006, Sue served as the executive editor on a new book being compiled by the not-for-profit media foundation World Heritage Project on the UN-designated World Heritage Sites in India, working with world-renowned photographers such as Mary Ellen Mark, Sally Mann, Jim Natchwey, Steve McCurry, Lynn Davis, Michel Comte and Antonin Kratochvil. Other projects have included "Individuals: Portraits from the Gap Collection" (Melcher Media, 2006), "American Beauties" (DK Melcher Media, 2005), "The Lucky (Magazine) Shopping Manual" (Gotham Books, 2003), "100 Years of Harley -Davidson" (Bulfinch, 2002), "Fifty Years of TV Guide" (Crown, 2002) and a custom made, limited edition book for Rolex Watches (2004).

SUE HOSTETLER, who also did graduate studies at the Art Institute of Chicago, has served as a trustee for the Ansel Adams Museum of San Francisco and is currently holding the same position at the International Center for Photography and Ballroom Marfa, a celebrated art and performance center located in iconic Marfa, Texas.  Married with a young daughter, SUE HOSTETLER currently lives in New York. Her husband, JON DIAMOND, is a media entrepreneur (Vanity Fair, December 0807) and on the board of several major institutions, including the New Museum in NYC.