Kurt Andersen is author of the critically acclaimed novels True Believers; Heyday, a New York Times bestseller and winner of the 2008 Langum Prize for the year’s best historical fiction; and national bestseller Turn of the Century. He is also host and co-creator of the Peabody Award-winning public radio program Studio 360, and contributes regularly to Vanity Fair, Time, New York and the New York Times. In addition, he has written for film, TV and the stage; served as a columnist for The New Yorker and editor-in-chief of New York Magazine; and cofounded Spy magazine.