Theodore Porter "Tad" Friend (born September 25, 1962) is a staff writer for The New Yorker who writes the magazine's "Letter from California".
Friend was a contributing editor at various publications, including Esquire, prior to becoming a staff writer at The New Yorker in 1998.
[1] In 2001, he published "Lost in Mongolia: Travels in Hollywood and Other Foreign Lands", a collection of his articles.
His memoir, Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor, was published in 2009.
[1] Friend is married to food writer Amanda Hesser, with whom he has twin children.