Alex Halberstadt

Alex Halberstadt (born in 1970 in Moscow) is an American writer, noted in particular for his biography of Doc Pomus. He came to the United States as a child in 1980^{[citation needed]}. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1992, and for some time worked at NYANA, a refugee resettlement agency in New York City (his co-workers there included Todd Solondz, Gary Shteyngart, Alexander Gelman and Roman Turovsky).

Alex Halberstadt’s writings have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, GQ, Los Angeles Times, Salon, the Oxford American, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Bibliography

• Alex Halberstadt (2007) Lonely Avenue: The Unlikely Life And Times Of Doc Pomus. New York: DeCapo Press.
• http://nymag.com/arts/books/features/24986/

External links

• New York Times review of Lonely Avenue
• The Independent review of Lonely Avenue