David Hajdu
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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 biographical work includes Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn, 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.
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, which won an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award in 2010.
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is one of Columbia's graduate and professional schools. It offers three degree programs: Master of Science in journalism , Master of Arts in journalism and a Ph.D. in communications...
. He is the music critic for The New Republic
The New Republic
The magazine has also published two articles concerning income inequality, largely criticizing conservative economists for their attempts to deny the existence or negative effect increasing income inequality is having on the United States...
.
Hajdu was born and raised in Phillipsburg, New Jersey
Phillipsburg, New Jersey
Phillipsburg, known locally as P'burg, is a town in Warren County, New Jersey, in the United States. As of 2010 United States Census, the town's population was 14,950....
and attended New York University
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
, where he majored in journalism.
His biographical work includes Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn, 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.
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, which won an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award in 2010.