David Pogue
New York Times Technology Columnist
David Pogue is the personal-technology columnist for The New York Times. Each week, he writes a print column, an online column, and a popular blog, Pogues Posts, which won a 2010 Loeb Award for excellence in business journalism.
David is also an Emmy award-winning tech correspondent for CBS Sunday Morning. His trademark comic tech videos air each Thursday on CNBC, and then go on to a busy afterlife on YouTube, iTunes, TiVo, and JetBlue seatbacks. He writes a monthly column for Scientific American, and is the host of Making Stuff: Smaller, Smarter, Stronger, Cleaner a PBS NOVA science miniseries.
With over 3 million books in print, David is one of the worlds bestselling how-to authors. He wrote or co-wrote seven books in the for Dummies series (including Macs, Magic, Opera, and Classical Music); in 1999, he launched his own series of complete, funny computer books called The Missing Manual series, which now includes over 100 titles. Hes also the author of a novel for middle-schoolers; a technothriller (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year); and a book of humor coauthored by his 1.3 million followers on Twitter.
David graduated summa cum laude from Yale in 1985, with distinction in Music, and he spent ten years conducting and arranging Broadway musicals in New York. In 2009, he was awarded an honorary doctorate in music from the Shenandoah Conservatory.
