Katie Hafner
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Katie Hafner (born December 5, 1957)[1] is an American journalist and author. She is a former staff member of The New York Times, and has written books and articles about technology, healthcare, and society.
Early life and education
Hafner was born in Rochester, New York,[1] and raised in Amherst, Massachusetts.[2] She earned a bachelor's degree in German literature from the University of California at San Diego in 1979 and a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1981.[1]
Career
Beginning in 1983, Hafner worked as a reporter at Computerworld and then at The San Diego Union. She became a staff editor at Business Week in 1986, leaving in 1989. From 1990 to 1994, she worked freelance, writing articles and books, before becoming technology correspondent at Newsweek. In February 1998 she became a writer for the weekly Circuits section of The New York Times,[1] where she remained on staff for a decade. She has also written for Esquire, Wired, The New Republic, and The New York Times Magazine.
Hafner's first book was Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier (1991), an exploration of youth computer-hacking in three parts, co-written with John Markoff.[3] In 1996, with her then husband, Matthew Lyon, she published Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet.[4] Her 2001 book on the online community The WELL, an expansion of a 1997 article for Wired,[5] was praised there for "flashes of genuine insight".[6] Her sixth book, Mother Daughter Me (2013), a memoir about trying to live with her mother and her teenage daughter in a house in San Francisco,[7] was named one of "Ten Titles to Pick Up Now" in the August 2013 issue of O Magazine and was on other lists of recommendations including Parade magazine's 2013 "Summer Reading List".[8]
Her first novel, The Boys,[9] was published in July, 2022.
Hafner's 2006 New York Times article "Growing Wikipedia Refines its 'Anyone Can Edit' Policy"[10] is included in the second edition of The McGraw-Hill Guide Writing for College, Writing for Life, an English composition textbook.[11]
She is on the advisory board of the Internet Hall of Fame.[12] She is interviewed in the John Korty documentary Miracle in a Box, about the rebuilding of a Steinway piano.[citation needed]
Hafner co-produces and is the narrator of a series of podcasts called, Lost Women of Science. As of 2022 they have produced two seasons. The first one tells the story of Dr. Dorothy Anderson, the first person to identify the causes of Cystic Fibrosis. The second season is the story of Klára Dán von Neumann, the first person to have written a modern-style computer code.
Personal life
Hafner married Matt Lyon, a university administrator, in 1992; they had a daughter. He died in February 2002.[2] In 2012 she remarried to Robert M. Wachter, who is chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.[13] In June 2022, he announced that she was probably suffering from long COVID.[14]
Books
- Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier (with John Markoff) (Simon & Schuster, 1991) ISBN 0-684-81862-0
- The House at the Bridge: A Story of Modern Germany (Scribner, 1995) ISBN 0-684-19400-7
- Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet (with Matthew Lyon) (Simon & Schuster, 1996) ISBN 0-684-83267-4
- The Well: A Story of Love, Death and Real Life in the Seminal Online Community (Carroll & Graf, 2001) ISBN 0-7867-0846-8
- A Romance on Three Legs: Glenn Gould's Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Piano (Bloomsbury, 2008) ISBN 0-7710-3754-6
- Mother Daughter Me (Random House, 2013) ISBN 140006936X
- The Boys (2022, Spiegel & Grau)[15]
References
- ^ a b c d "Ask A Reporter: Katie Hafner". The New York Times. 2000. Archived from the original on November 3, 2002.
- ^ a b Katie Hafner (February 23, 2010). "On Grief: A Widow Finally Confronts The Boxes Her Husband Left Behind". O, The Oprah Magazine. Retrieved June 21, 2022.
- ^ Walter Mosley (August 11, 1991). "All the Bright Young Criminals". The New York Times Book Review. Retrieved June 21, 2022.
- ^ Stephen Manes (September 8, 1996). "The Info Footpath". The New York Times Book Review. Retrieved June 21, 2022.
- ^ Katie Hafner (May 1997). "The Epic Saga of The Well". Wired. Vol. 5, no. 5. Archived from the original on February 20, 1999.
- ^ Steve Silberman (June 2001). "The Well: A Story of Love, Death & Real Life in the Seminal Online Community, by Katie Hafner. The Gist: Closing A Chapter Of Internet History". Wired. Vol. 9, no. 6. Archived from the original on March 2, 2003.
- ^ Steven Kurutz (July 3, 2013). "'Mother Daughter Me': A Feel-Good Experiment that Wasn't". The New York Times. Archived from the original on July 4, 2013.
- ^ Katie Hafner (28 May 2013). "Mother Daughter Me: A Memoir". Retrieved June 21, 2022.
- ^ Hafner, Katie, The Boys, ISBN 978-1-954118-14-0, OCLC 1337410271, retrieved 2022-08-22
- ^ Katie Hafner (June 17, 2006). "Growing Wikipedia Refines Its 'Anyone Can Edit' Policy". The New York Times. Archived from the original on February 13, 2013.
- ^ Duane H. Roen; Gregory R. Glau; Barry M. Maid, eds. (2010). The McGraw-Hill Guide Writing: Writing for College, Writing for Life (2nd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 9780073383972. OCLC 436028125.
- ^ "Advisory Board: Katie Hafner". Internet Hall of Fame. Retrieved June 21, 2022.
- ^ @Bob_Wachter (August 27, 2012). "Yes, account hacked; hopefully now fixed. BTW, got married yesterday to the wonderful Katie Hafner ... Couldn't be happier" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ Aidin Vaziri (June 14, 2022) [June 13, 2022]. "UCSF's Wachter says his wife now likely has long COVID and her health is 'not great'". San Francisco Chronicle.
- ^ Wang, Weike (26 July 2022). "A Novel About Riding and Seeking". The New York Times.
