David Hajdu was born in 1955 in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, USA. He is known for Independent Lens (1999) and Video Review (1981). He is married to Karen Oberlain. They have two children.
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).
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.
Was editor of Entertainment Weekly from 1990 to 1999.
His last name is pronounced "Hay-do."
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.