David Hajdu David Hajdu is the author of seven acclaimed books of cultural history, biography, criticism, and fiction, including Adrianne Geffel, and a three-time National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. He is the music critic for em>The Nation, a professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, a member of the National Council on the Humanities, and a songwriter and librettist. He lives in New York City. Read More Read Less