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.