What was the pen-name of the American journalist Lois Long?

Lois Long (1901-1974) was an American journalist who gained fame for her articles in the "New Yorker" chronicling the age of the flappers and Prohibition in the 1920s. She wrote under the pseudonym of "Lipstick".

She was a highly educated and literate woman with a degree from the prestigious Vassar College, and her journalism began with student publications.

It was, however, her pieces in the "New Yorker" that led to her enduring fame. Her column was initially called "When Nights are Bold", but the name was later changed to "Tables for Two." Her anonymity enabled her to comment with frankness on the nightclub scene, and she made no secret of her disdain for the sanctimony and hypocrisy of officials who instigated raids and persecutions whilst their own conduct scarcely stood up to scrutiny. She managed to combine acute social commentary with light-hearted episodes that offered a vicarious glance into a world many of her readers would never have experienced first hand.

She was also considered a fashion expert, and was under contract with Paramount Pictures for a period.