The former gossip columnist for the Daily News was born in 1955. He grew up in Los Angeles and Greenwich, CT, and earned his B.A. in English from Yale, truly cementing his place as a model citizen of average, middle America (not).

Grove's illustrious career has included working for The Washington Post for 23 years, and later New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, and Harper's Bazaar. From 2003 to 2006 he wrote a weekday column for New York Daily News. Grove is now an editor-at-large for Tina Brown's Daily Beast.

His articles are known for touching on such erudite subjects as W. Bush's daughter's drinking problem, the Clinton staff's vandalism of the White House, and a Congressman settling a fight between his two girlfriends.