Dan Baum

author, journalist

Dan Baum has been a staff writer for *The New Yorker*, as well as a reporter for *The Wall Street Journal*, *The Asian Wall Street Journal*, and *The Atlanta Journal-Constitution*. He is the author of *Citizen Coors: An American Dynasty* and *Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure*. He has written numerous articles for such national magazines as *The New York Times Magazine*, *Playboy*, *Rolling Stone*, and *Wired*. His latest book is *Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans*.