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Nationality
  
US

Name
  
David Hajdu

Period
  
1965–present

Role
  
Columnist

Spouse
  
Karen Oberlin

Education
  
New York University

Children
  
3



Occupation
  
Professor, music critic, writer

Notable works
  
Lush Life Positively 4th Street The Ten-Cent Plague

Nominations
  
Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Biography/Autobiography

Books
  
The Ten‑Cent Plague: T, Lush Life: A Biograph, Heroes and Villains: E, Positively 4th Street: The Lives, Heroes and Villains

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David Hajdu (; born 1955) 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 and is music editor at The Nation.

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Biography

Of Hungarian and Italian descent, Hajdu was born and raised in Phillipsburg, New Jersey and attended New York University, where he majored in journalism.

His first professional work was illustrating for The Easton Express in 1972. 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. In the late 1980s he began teaching at The New School, and was an editor at Entertainment Weekly from 1990 to 1999. He was the music critic for The New Republic for 12 years and is music editor at The Nation.

He has taught at the University of Chicago (as nonfiction writer in residence), Syracuse University, and Columbia University, where he is a professor of journalism.

His has written biographies and other nonfiction involving the musical figures Billy Strayhorn, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina and on such topics as comic books and pop music.

Awards

  • 1997 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award: Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn
  • 2002 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award: Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina
  • Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award: Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina
  • Finalist, Firecracker Book Award: Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina
  • 2010 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award: Heroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and Culture
  • References

    David Hajdu Wikipedia