David Hajdu
Music Critic, The New Republic

David Hajdu is the author of two acclaimed, best-selling books: Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn and Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña, and Richard Fariña. Both were finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and both won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award.

He is a columnist for The New Republic, and he writes frequently for The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and Vanity Fair. In 2004, he was a finalist for a National Magazine Award for Profile Writing, and his work was selected for inclusion in the Best American Magazine Writing anthology. His articles and essays previously appeared in the books Best Music Writing and O.K. You Mugs: Writers on Movie Actors.

He served as a top editor at Time Inc.'s Entertainment Weekly from 1990 to 1999. Before that, he worked in new-magazine development at the New York Times Magazine Group.

As an educator, Professor Hajdu has taught at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, at the New School Graduate Writing Program, and at the University of Chicago, where was Nonfiction Writer-in-Residence.

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