David Hajdu (born 1955) is an American columnist, author and professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is the music critic for The New Republic. Hajdu was born and raised in Phillipsburg, New Jersey and attended New York University, where he majored in journalism. His biographical work includes Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn, which won an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award in 1997, and Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina, which won an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award in 2002 and was a finalist for the Nationa ... More from Amazon