Ken Auletta

Ken Auletta began contributing to The New Yorker in 1977 and launched the Annals of Communications in 1992. He is the author of twelve books, including “The Underclass” and five Times national best-sellers: “Three Blind Mice: How the TV Networks Lost Their Way,” “Greed and Glory on Wall Street: The Fall of the House of Lehman,” “The Highwaymen: Warriors of the Information Superhighway,” “World War 3.0: Microsoft and Its Enemies,” and “Googled: The End of the World As We Know It.” He has profiled the leading figures and companies of the information age, including Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Sheryl Sandberg, Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, and the three editors of the New York Times. His 2001 Profile of Ted Turner won a National Magazine Award. Previously, he was the chief political correspondent for the New York Post, a staff writer and weekly columnist for the Village Voice, and a contributing editor at New York magazine. Between 1977 and 1993, he was a Daily News columnist. He has been a Pulitzer Prize juror and, for more than three decades, a judge of the annual Livingston Awards for Young Journalists. He has been selected as a Library Lion by the New York Public Library, has twice served as a board member of pen, and was a trustee of the Public Theatre/New York Shakespeare Festival. His thirteenth book, a biography of Harvey Weinstein, will be published in July.