David Hajdu

David Hajdu is a critic and cultural historian who teaches at the Columbia Journalism School. He is a five-time winner of the ASCAP/Deems Taylor Award for Music Writing, most recently for A Revolution in Three Acts: The Radical Vaudeville of Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, and Julian Eltinge (Columbia, 2021, with John Carey). His biography of Billy Strayhorn, Lush Life, was named one of the hundred best nonfiction books of all time by the New York Times.