BIO

Seth Mnookin is the author of the New York Times bestseller Feeding the Monster (Simon & Schuster), a book about the John Henry-Tom Werner ownership group of the Boston Red Sox. In 2004, he published Hard News, a Washington Post Best Book of the Year. He is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, where he’s written about the dwindling American media presence in Iraq, Bloomberg LP's plans for world domination, and the unique appeal of Stephen Colbert. In 2002 and 2003, he was a senior writer at Newsweek, where he wrote the media column “Raw Copy” and also covered politics and popular culture. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, New York, The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post Book World, Spin, Slate, Salon, and other publications. A former music columnist for The New York Observer, he began his journalism career as a rock critic for the now-defunct webzine Addicted to Noise and has also worked as a crime reporter at The Palm Beach Post, a city hall reporter at the Forward, a presidential campaign reporter at Brill’s Content, and a jack-of-all-trades at Inside.com. He graduated from Harvard College in 1994 with a degree in the History of Science, and was a 2004 Joan Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. A native of Newton, Massachusetts, he and his wife currently live in Brooklyn with their cat and dog.