David Hajdu

David Hajdu (; born March 1955) 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, and was born and raised in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, he 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. and is music editor at The Nation.

He has taught at the University of Chicago (as nonfiction writer in residence), Syracuse University, and Columbia University,

Awards

1997 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award: Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn 2002: ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award: Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina Finalist, Firecracker Alternative Book Award: Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina 2010 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award: Heroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and Culture