Martha Inc.

Christopher Michael Byron was born in Washington, D.C. on December 27, 1944. He dropped out of high school in 1962 and served in the Navy for two years. He graduated from Yale University with honors in 1968. He was a reporter with The Hour in Norwalk, Connecticut before graduating from Columbia Law School in 1972. Afterward, he joined the staff of Time magazine. He later wrote for Forbes, New York magazine, and Esquire. He wrote a financial column for The New York Observer from 1995 to 2001 and was then a columnist at The New York Post until 2006.

He wrote several books during his lifetime including The Fanciest Dive: What Happened When the Giant Media Empire of Time/Life Leaped Without Looking Into the Age of High-Tech, Skin Tight: The Bizarre Story of Guess v. Jordache, and Martha Inc.: The Incredible Story of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, which was made into a television movie starring Cybill Shepherd. He died after a long illness on January 7, 2017 at the age of 72.

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