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Kurt Andersen

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born

August 22, 1954 in Omaha, The United States

gender

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website

http://www.kurtandersen.com

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Literature & Fiction

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July 2011

About this author

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Kurt Andersen is the author of three novels -- Heyday (a New York Times bestseller and winner of the 2008 Langum Prize for historical fiction), Turn of the Century (a national bestseller and New York Times Notable Book), and the new True Believers.

He is also host of the Peabody Award-winning weekly public radio program Studio 360, and a contributing editor to Vanity Fair.

Previously, Kurt was a co-founder and editor-in-chief of the satirical magazine Spy, editor-in-chief of New York Magazine, a staff writer at The New Yorker and the design and architecture critic and cultural columnist for Time.

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Books by Kurt Andersen

Average rating: 3.62 · 2,400 ratings · 566 reviews · 17 distinct works

	Heyday 3.39 avg rating — 656 ratings — published 2007 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Turn of the Century 3.50 avg rating — 170 ratings — published 1999 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Reset: How This Crisis Can Restore Our Values and Renew America by Kurt Andersen (Goodreads Author), Tom Brokaw (Foreword) 3.29 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	My rating:
	True Believers 3.55 avg rating — 20 ratings — expected publication 2012 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Real Thing: A Book That Separates the Men from the Boys, and the Wheat from the Chaff, and the Bogus from the Bona Fide 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1980 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Untitled Nonfiction 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	True Believers: A Novel 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2012	My rating:
	Eeuwisseling 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1999	My rating:
	Spark: How Creativity Works by Julie Burstein, Kurt Andersen (Goodreads Author) 3.13 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Fields Of Vision: The Photographs Of John Vachon: The Library Of Congress 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:

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Kurt Andersen added: The Lower River by Paul Theroux	My rating:
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