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. 

External links

• Official site
• Works by David Hajdu on Open Library at the Internet Archive

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Name	Hajdu, David
Alternative names
Short description	columnist, author, professor and music critic
Date of birth	1955-03-08
Place of birth	Phillipsburg, New Jersey, USA
Date of death
Place of death