TANQUERAY

TANQUERAY
BRANDON STANTON
One of Humans of New York’s most followed stories: the tale of Stephanie Johnson, better known as Tanqueray. 1970s New York City: Go-go dancers, The Peppermint Lounge, gangsters, Billy’s Topless, and Stephanie Johnson . . . In 2019, Humans of New York featured a photo of a woman in an outrageous fur coat and hat she made herself. She instantly captured the attention of millions. Her name is Stephanie Johnson, but she’s better known to HONY followers as “Tanqueray,” the indefatigable woman who was once one of the best-known burlesque dancers in New York City. Brandon Stanton chronicled her life in the longest series he had yet posted on HONY, but, now, Stephanie Johnson—a woman as fabulous, unbowed, and irresistible as the city she lives in—tells all in Tanqueray, a book filled with never-before-told stories, personal photos from her own collection, and glimpses of New York City back in the day when the name “Tanqueray” was on everyone’s lips.
BRANDON STANTON
Brandon Stanton s the creator of the #1 New York Times bestselling books Humans of New York and Humans of New York: Stories. He has been named a Time Magazine "30 people under 30 changing the world," an ABC News Person of the Week, told stories from around the world in collaboration with the United Nations, and was invited to photograph President Obama in the Oval Office. His photography and storytelling blog, also called Humans of New York, is followed by over thirty million people on several social media platforms. He is a graduate of the University of Georgia and lives in New York City.