David Hajdu

David Hajdu
David Hajdu
Born March 8, 1955 (1955-03-08) (age 56)
Phillipsburg, New Jersey, USA
Occupation Professor, music critic, writer
Nationality  United States
Period 1965 - present
Notable work(s) Lush Life
Positively 4th Street
The Ten-Cent Plague
Spouse(s) Karen Oberlin
Children 3

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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]

Hajdu was born and raised in Phillipsburg, New Jersey and attended New York University, where he majored in journalism.[2]

His biographical work includes Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn,[3] which won an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award in 1997, and Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina, which won an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award in 2002 and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Firecracker Book Award.[4]

His nonfiction work includes The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America[5] and Heroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and Culture, which won an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award in 2010.

Personal life

As of 2009, Hajdu lives in Manhattan with his wife and three children.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b at Guests for the April 2008 New York Comic Convention at nycomiccon.com. Accessed January 13, 2009.
  2. ^ Bell, Bill. "LONG LIVE THE DUKE", Daily News (New York), April 30, 1999. Accessed March 14, 2011. "He was born in Phillipsburg, N.J., where his father was a mill worker and his mother a waitress. He majored in journalism at New York University, and except for a brief flirtation with the Episcopal priesthood as a seminarian at the New York General Theological Seminary, he has worked as a writer and editor for about 25 years."
  3. ^ "Silent Partner". The New York Times. 1996-07-14. http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/12/07/reviews/19827.html?_r=1&oref=slogin. Retrieved 2008-06-26. 
  4. ^ "Critics Announce Book Award Finalists". The New York Times. 2002-01-29. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE6D7123AF93AA15752C0A9649C8B63. Retrieved 2008-06-26. 
  5. ^ Minzesheimer, Bob (2008-03-19). "'Ten-Cent Plague': Comic books and censorship". USA Today. http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/reviews/2008-03-19-ten-cent-plague-hajdu_N.htm. Retrieved 2008-06-26. 

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