Andrew Kopkind (August 24, 1935 – October 23, 1994) was an American journalist best known for his reporting during the tumult of the late 1960s; he wrote about the anti-Vietnam War protests, Civil Rights Movement, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Students for a Democratic Society, the Black Panther Party, the Weathermen, President Johnson's "Great Society" initiatives, and Ronald Reagan's California gubernatorial campaign.
[1] From the 1970s onward, he contributed regularly to The Village Voice, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, and Grand Street.
In the early 1970s he and his longtime companion John Scagliotti hosted the Lavender Hour.
[2] Kopkind wrote two books: America: The Mixed Curse (1969) and The Thirty Years' Wars: Dispatches and Diversions of a Radical Journalist, 1965-1994, an anthology of his writing published posthumously in 1995, with an introduction by Alexander Cockburn.
"[3] In a remembrance, the writer Calvin Trillin described him as "the most entertaining person of his generation.