Columnist, Popular Culture Icon. Born Lois Bancroft Long in Stamford, Connecticut, the eldest child of Frances Bancroft and Reverend Doctor William J. Long, pastor of the First Congregational Church of Stamford. She attended Vassar, where she was one of the Literary and Joke editors of 1922's 'Vassarian.' After graduating with a degree in English, she went immediately to Manhattan, working first as a copywriter at 'Vogue,' and then, as a staff writer and drama critic at 'Vanity Fair.' In the summer of 1925, she was hired by the months old publication, 'The New Yorker' where she debuted with a New York City nightlife column in June 1925 under the byline 'Lipstick.' The column title changed to 'Tables for Two' in the September 12 issue, as she made it her own. She teased New York's crusading district attorney about closing her favorite night spots, and sung the praises of Harlem nightclubs, jazz clubs, after parties, and speakeasies with exuberance and humor. Her stated motto was 'Tomorrow we may die, so let's get drunk and make love.' She was known to arrive at work at 4 a.m., still dressed for the evening and still drunk, in order to write her column while it was fresh. She has been described as the embodiment of the 1920s flapper. She was named the magazine's fashion editor, and her first fashion column, 'On and Off the Avenue,' appeared on January 1, 1927. She was known for refusing to play industry sycophant, her columns were for the consumer, not the manufacturer. That same year she married 'New Yorker' cartoonist Peter Arno. After the birth of a daughter two years later, her nightlife column began to fade, appearing less often, as she concentrated on the fashion column, the last 'Tables for Two' appeared June 7, 1930. The following year, her marriage ended in divorce. She continued writing fashion columns as well as items for the 'Comments' and 'Talk of the Town' sections. The byline 'Lipstick' still appeared occasionally, including on a six-part series in 1931, entitled 'Doldrums' which bemoaned the loss of the social joie de vivre of the 1920s for the self-diagnosis of the 1930s. She branched out, working for the 'New York Evening Telegraph' as well. She married Donaldson Bride Thorburn, and co-authored his WWII memoir, 'No Tumult, No Shouting; the Story of the PBY' (1945). Both her father and husband died in 1952, and she then edited and published her father's remaining manuscript, 'The Spirit of the Wild' (1956). In 1953, she married investment broker Harold Fox. She had two long essays appear in 'The New York Times Magazine,' 'The Bonnet; or, Man's Fall' (1952) and 'The Shaggy Hair Story' (1954). After her husband's death in 1968, her output fell off, and she retired from 'The New Yorker' in 1970. Diagnosed with lung cancer, she succumbed four years later. Her career was part of Joshua Zeitz's study, 'Flapper: Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern (2006).