David Hajdu is the author of 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. He is a critic for The New Republic and a professor in the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. He lives in New York City.
Books in order of publication:
Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn. 1996
Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña and Richard Fariña. 2001
The Ten-Cent Plague – 2008
Heroes and villains: essays on music, movies, comics, and culture – 2009
Love for Sale: Pop Music in America – 2016
Adrianne Geffel: A Fiction – 2020
The Uncanny Muse: Music, Art, and Machines from Automata to AI – 2025
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