Dan Kennedy (author)

Wired Magazine celebrated the 10th anniversary of The Moth podcast in a profile[3] outlining its rise from two thousand subscribers to forty-six million downloads per year.

A memoir followed in 2008 entitled Rock On: An Office Power Ballad, which the New York Times described as "...a succession of gently mordant vignettes, with hilariously spot-on asides about media image-making".

[6][7] He discussed the book, and his time working as a Creative Director for Atlantic Records in New York,[8] with Terry Gross on NPR's "Fresh Air".

[9] Kennedy's debut novel American Spirit[10] was released in 2013, receiving the coveted starred review from Publishers Weekly,[11] which heralded the book as having, "...far surpassed the creation of character and conjured an entity so alive in its knowledge of impending death that we're captured in a new idea of what it's like to live.

"[12] Kennedy's work has appeared in GQ Magazine and on the Peabody Award winning Moth Radio Hour, and has been widely anthologized in literary collections in Europe and the United States.