Seabrook graduated from St. Andrew's School (DE) in 1976, Princeton University in 1981 and received an M.A.
[citation needed] He began his career writing about business and published in a wide variety of magazines and newspapers, including Manhattan, inc.,[3] Harper's, Vanity Fair, GQ, The Nation, The Village Voice, and the Christian Science Monitor.
[citation needed] To date, he has published four books besides contributing numerous articles to The New Yorker.
[4] A feature film by Marc Abraham based on his 2008 book Flash of Genius was released on October 2008, starring Greg Kinnear.
[5] His new book, The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory was published in October, 2015.