Kurt Andersen
Writer, novelist and radio host
Kurt Andersen is an American writer of novels and nonfiction. He co-founded Spy magazine and hosted the public radio program Studio 360.
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American Born in Omaha, United States
About Kurt Andersen
Kurt Andersen is an American writer who was born in Omaha. He has written novels and nonfiction, and has also written for television and the theater. True Believers, Heyday and Turn of the Century are among his novels. He co-founded the satirical magazine Spy and was editor-in-chief of New York magazine. He was also a staff writer at The New Yorker and a design and architecture critic for Time. He co-created and hosted Studio 360, a weekly public radio program that won a Peabody Award. Fantasyland was a New York Times best seller. His books in our catalog are Fantasyland and Evil Geniuses.