David Hajdu
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David Hajdu is an American columnist, author and professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He was the music critic for The New Republic for 12 years[1] and is music editor at The Nation.[1][2]
Early life
Of Hungarian and Italian descent,[3] Hajdu was born and raised in Phillipsburg, New Jersey and attended New York University, where he majored in journalism.[4]
His first professional work was illustrating for The Easton Express in 1972.[5] He started writing for The Village Voice and Rolling Stone in 1979, and was the founding editor of Video Review magazine, where he worked from 1980 to 1984.[5] In the late 1980s he began teaching at The New School, and was an editor at Entertainment Weekly from 1990 to 1999.[5] He has taught at the University of Chicago (as nonfiction writer in residence), Syracuse University, and Columbia University,[5] where he is an associate professor of journalism.[1]
His biographical work includes Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn,[6] and Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina. His nonfiction work includes The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America,[7] and Heroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and Culture.
Awards
- 1997 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award: Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn[8]
- 2002 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award: Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina[8]
- Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award: Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina[9]
- Finalist, Firecracker Book Award: Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina[9]
- 2002 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award: Heroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and Culture[8]
Personal life
Hajdu has three children, Jacob, Victoria, and Nathan, and lives in Manhattan with his wife, singer and actress Karen Oberlin.[citation needed]
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