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Stephanie LaCava is an American writer.
Born in New York, LaCava spent part of her childhood in Le Vésinet, in the western suburbs of Paris, before returning to the US to study at Colgate University. She began her career at American Vogue and now writes for print and online publications, including The Paris Review, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Vanity Fair, Interview (magazine), and Tin House.
She is the author of An Extraordinary Theory of Objects: A Memoir of an Outsider in Paris, an autobiographical series of essays about her expatriate adolescence. As part of the book launch, LaCava partnered with fashion designer Marc Jacobs to create accessories inspired by artifacts from the book, with sales benefitting the New York-based children's mental health care charity, Child Mind Institute.