The Company I Keep: My Life in Beauty

In this much-anticipated memoir, Chairman Emeritus and former CEO of The Estée Lauder Companies, Leonard A. Lauder, shares the business and life lessons he has learned—as well as the adventures he had while helping transform the mom-and-pop business his mother founded in 1946 into the beloved brand and iconic global prestige beauty company it is today.

In this captivating personal account—complete with great stories as only he can tell them—Mr. Lauder reflects on his childhood, growing up during the Great Depression, the vibrant decades of the post-World War II boom, and his work growing the company into the beauty powerhouse it is today.  Mr. Lauder pays loving tribute to his mother Estée Lauder, its eponymous founder, and to the employees of the company, both past and present, while sharing inside stories about the company.

Mr. Lauder pledged the entire Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection to The Met in 2013. It consists of 85 works of art by the four pioneering Cubists: Georges Braque, Juan Gris, Fernand Léger, and Pablo Picasso, ranging in date from 1906 to 1924.