David Hajdu
David Hajdu | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Professor, music critic, writer |
| Nationality |  United States |
| Period | 1965 - present |
| Notable works | Lush Life Positively 4th Street The Ten-Cent Plague |
| Spouse | Karen Oberlin |
| Children | 3 |
| Website | |
| http://www.davidhajdu.com/ | |
David Hajdu (born 1955) is an American columnist, author and professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is the music critic for The New Republic.[1]
His biographical work includes Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn,[2] and Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina, which won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Firecracker Book Award.[3]
His nonfiction work includes The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America[4]
Personal life
As of 2009, Hajdu lives in Manhattan with his wife and three children.[1]
References
- ^ a b at Guests for the April 2008 New York Comic Convention at nycomiccon.com. Accessed January 13, 2009.
- ^ "Silent Partner". The New York Times. 1996-07-14. Retrieved 2008-06-26.
- ^ "Critics Announce Book Award Finalists". The New York Times. 2002-01-29. Retrieved 2008-06-26.
- ^ Minzesheimer, Bob (2008-03-19). "'Ten-Cent Plague': Comic books and censorship". USA Today. Retrieved 2008-06-26.
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