Gene Santoro

Growing up in a two-room basement apartment in Brooklyn, Gene Santoro didn't know people like him could become writers--never mind make a living at it. But for nearly thirty years, he's managed to do just that. Besides his own books and essays appearing in compilations, his writings about music, pop culture, and history have journalism have appeared in the New York Daily News, The Nation, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, The Washington Post, New Yorker, New York, The Village Voice, Chamber Music, Spin, Rolling Stone, Down Beat, Discover, and Business 2.0. Currently Santoro is an editor-writer at Weider History Group, where he is reviews editor at American History and World War II magazines and helms the annual film-based special issue.