Sam Anderson is an American author, who is a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine[1] and the author of Boom Town, a book about Oklahoma City.
[2] In 2017, he won a National Magazine Award for his article about Michelangelo's David.
[3] Prior to this, he was a book critic for the magazine New York .
[4] In 2007 he received the Balakian Award for Excellence in Criticism from the National Book Critics Circle.
[5] Anderson holds a master's degree from Louisiana State University.