- Author of two best-selling books, 'Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn,' (1996) and 'Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina' (2001).
- Writes for The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, The Atlantic Monthly, and The New Yorker.
- Was editor of Entertainment Weekly from 1990 to 1999.
- His last name is pronounced "Hay-do."
- He is a Professor of Journalism at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City. He is also the music critic for the The New Republic.
- Father of daughter, Victoria Barbara Hajdu (born in 1986) with Joanne S. Hajdu of New York City and father-in-law of Andrew Harold Abramson (born in 1983).
- New York City: Critic and music journalist (July 2012)
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