Andrew Marantz (born September 26, 1984) is an American author and journalist who writes for ''
The New Yorker
''The New Yorker'' is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. It was founded on February 21, 1925, by Harold Ross and his wife Jane Grant, a reporter for ''The New York T ...
''.
Education and career
From 2002 to 2006 Marantz was an undergraduate at
Brown University
Brown University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It is the List of colonial colleges, seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the ' ...
, receiving a bachelor's degree in religion and religious studies. From 2009 to 2011 he was a graduate student at
New York University
New York University (NYU) is a private university, private research university in New York City, New York, United States. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded in 1832 by Albert Gallatin as a Nondenominational ...
, receiving a master's degree in journalism. Marantz is a staff writer for ''
The New Yorker
''The New Yorker'' is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. It was founded on February 21, 1925, by Harold Ross and his wife Jane Grant, a reporter for ''The New York T ...
'', contributing to the magazine since 2011. In 2019 he published his book, ''Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians and the Hijacking of the American Conversation'',
The edition of the book published by London's
Picador is entitled ''Antisocial: How Extremists Broke America''. In 2020,
Project Syndicate chose it as one of the best reads of 2020, finding it "one of the best recent accounts of how social media has come to dominate political discourse in the United States."
Personal life
In October 2013 Marantz married the lawyer Sarah Lustbader. They have a son, Gideon Caleb Marantz, born 2017. Marantz is Jewish, and he is the son of the physician Paul R. Marantz.
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1984 births
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Brown University alumni
New York University alumni
20th-century American Jews
American magazine journalists
The New Yorker people
21st-century American Jews
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