David Hajdu is an American columnist, author and professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is the music critic for The New Republic.Hajdu was born and raised in Phillipsburg, New Jersey and attended New York University, where he majored in journalism.His first professional work was illustrating for The Easton Express in 1972. He started writing for The Village Voice and Rolling Stone in 1979, and was the founding editor of Video Review magazine, where he worked from 1980 to 1984. In the late 1980s began teaching at The New School, and was an editor at Entertainment Weekly from 1990 to 1999. He has taught at the University of Chicago (as nonfiction writer in residence), Syracuse University, and Columbia University, where he is an associate professor of journalism.His biographical work includes Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn, and Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina. His nonfiction work includes The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America, and Heroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and Culture.
New York City: Critic and music journalist [July 2012]
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Father of daughter, Victoria Barbara Hajdu (born in 1986) with Joanne S. Hajdu of New York City and father-in-law of Andrew Harold Abramson (born in 1983).
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He is a Professor of Journalism at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City. He is also the music critic for the The New Republic.
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His last name is pronounced "Hay-do."
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Was editor of Entertainment Weekly from 1990 to 1999.
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Writes for The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, The Atlantic Monthly, and The New Yorker.
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Author of two best-selling books, 'Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn,' (1996) and 'Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina' (2001).
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TV Series documentary creative consultant - 1 episode
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