David Hajdu (/ˈheɪdjuː/; born March 1955)[1] is an American columnist, author and professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Hajdu is of Hungarian and Italian descent,[2] and was born and raised in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, he attended New York University, where he majored in journalism.

[4] He started writing for The Village Voice and Rolling Stone in 1979, and was the founding editor of Video Review magazine, where he worked from 1980 to 1984.

In October, 2021, President Joe Biden nominated Hajdu to serve a six year term on the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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