David Hajdu Explained

David Hajdu
Birth Place:Phillipsburg, New Jersey, US
Occupation:Professor, music critic, writer
Period:1972–present
Notableworks:Lush Life
Positively 4th Street
The Ten-Cent Plague
Love for Sale
Spouse:Karen Oberlin
Children:3

David Hajdu (; born March 1955)[1] is an American columnist, author and professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He was the music critic for The New Republic for 12 years and is music editor at The Nation.

Biography

Hajdu is of Hungarian and Italian descent,[2] and was born and raised in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, he attended New York University, where he majored in journalism.[3]

His first professional work was illustrating for The Easton Express in 1972.[4] 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 he began teaching at The New School, and was an editor at Entertainment Weekly from 1990 to 1999. He was the music critic for The New Republic for 12 years[5] and is music editor at The Nation.[5] [6]

He has taught at the University of Chicago (as nonfiction writer in residence), Syracuse University, and Columbia University, where he is a professor of journalism.

He has written biographies and other nonfiction about the musicians Billy Strayhorn, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina, and Richard Farina. He has also written about comic books.

In October, 2021, President Joe Biden nominated Hajdu to serve a six year term on the National Endowment for the Humanities.[7]

Awards

Bibliography

All books published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, unless otherwise noted.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Current's Rock and Roll Book Club: David Hajdu's 'Love for Sale'. Jay . Gabler. October 19, 2016. September 4, 2019. Minnesota Public Radio. October 20, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161020181539/http://www.thecurrent.org/feature/2016/10/18/david-hajdu-love-for-sale. live. 'I was born in March 1955,' writes David Hajdu in Love for Sale, 'the same month Blackboard Jungle was released..
  2. Hajdu . David . Review: Paul Simon, So Beautiful or So What . . 2011-05-19 .
  3. News: Bell . Bill . Long Live the Duke . https://archive.today/20070811131644/http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/1999/04/30/1999-04-30_long_live_the_duke.html . dead . August 11, 2007 . . New York City . April 30, 1999 . 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. .
  4. Web site: About . David Hajdu (official site) . December 20, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130118215517/http://www.davidhajdu.com/bio.html . January 18, 2013 . dead .
  5. Web site: Faculty: David Hajdu . . December 20, 2012. December 21, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161221040908/https://journalism.columbia.edu/faculty/david-hajdu. live.
  6. Web site: Masthead . March 24, 2010 . The Nation . February 2, 2015.
  7. Web site: Phillipsburg native tabbed by President Biden for National Council on the Humanities. October 30, 2021 . Lehigh Valley Live . May 22, 2022.
  8. Web site: Prof. David Hajdu wins Deems Taylor Award for music criticism . November 17, 2010 . . December 20, 2012. March 4, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304124316/http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/news/252.
  9. News: Critics Announce Book Award Finalists . . January 29, 2002 . June 26, 2008 .

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