The magazine has hired Steve Oney as a Senior Writer. He fills the slot vacated by Amy Wallace, who left to return to the Times as an editor in the Business section some months back. The announcement from Los Angeles editor Kit Rachlis follows:

I’m pleased to announce that Steve Oney is joining the staff as a Senior Writer. Steve, who’s been a Writer-at-large for several months and contributed the Arianna Huffington profile in the October issue, has had a distinguished career. He was a staff writer for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Magazine, a Nieman Fellow, a Senior Editor at California, and a Senior Writer at Premiere. In addition, he has written for Esquire, Playboy, the L.A. Times, among many other places. Most recently, he published The Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank (Pantheon), which won a Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association for the best book of 2004. Steve, who has lived in L.A. since 1982, will be coming on board in early December. Please welcome him.