Vicky Moon:

Writer and photographer Vicky Moon has chronicled the lives of the rich, the not so rich, the famous, and the not-so-famous for more than twenty years. She has written about lavish parties, hunt balls, steeplechase races for People, The Washington Post, Town and Country, and Millionaire and magazines. She has chronicled homes and gardens for Veranda and Southern Accents, has served as a contributing editor for House and Garden and writes a monthly column for Washington Life

Ms. Moon is the author of many titles including The Private Passion of Jackie Kennedy Onassis: Portrait of a Rider and Equestrian Style: Home Design, Couture, And Collections from the Eclectic to the Elegant, The Middleburg Mystique, The Official Middleburg Life Cookbook, Best-dressed Southern Salads and A Sunday Horse.

Vicky has lived in the village of Middleburg, Virginia for most of her life. It's horse heaven with wide-open fields, horse farms and quaint country lanes. The town became widely know in the early 1960's when the Kennedy's made it their weekend retreat. Jackie loved it there; it offered her a place to get away from the glare along with the opportunity to ride her horses, which she loved. Vicky, too has been a rider all her life. Vicky was able to chat with Jackie, on several occasions, and photographed her on horseback for her book The Private Passion of Jackie Kennedy Onassis: Portrait of a Rider.

In Vicky's book, The Middleburg Mystique: A Peek Inside the Gates of Middleburg, Virginia she provides an inside look at the people, places, and mystique that surround this horse-crazy village. The cast of local residents and celebrities once prompted a visitor to once ask, “What is it about you people out there in Middleburg? Is there something in the well water?

Vicky lives in Middleburg, Virginia, with her husband, sportswriter Leonard Shapiro, and her son.

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