Kurt Andersen

Kurt Andersen is an American novelist, journalist and broadcaster, born in Nebraska. He co-founded the satirical magazine Spy and edited it for seven years, and later served as editor-in-chief of New York magazine. From 2000 to 2020 he created and hosted the public radio programme Studio 360, which won two Peabody Awards.

His novels include Turn of the Century (1999), Heyday (2007) and True Believers (2012); his non-fiction includes Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire (2017) and Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America (2020). His short story "Human Intelligence" appeared in the anthology Stories: All-New Tales (2010), edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio.