David Hajdu

David Hajdu
Hajdu in 2015
BornMarch 1955 (age 70)
Phillipsburg, New Jersey, US
OccupationProfessor, music critic, writer
Period1972–present
Notable worksLush Life
Positively 4th Street
The Ten-Cent Plague
Love for Sale
SpouseKaren Oberlin
Children3
Website
www.davidhajdu.com

David Hajdu (/ˈhdj/; 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.