David Kushner
David grew up in the suburbs of Tampa, Florida on a steady diet of MAD magazines, video games, and illegal fireworks.
In college, he started writing for the school paper to get free CDs and concert tickets.
He came to New York City in 1989 at age 20 with a lot of ambitions and wrote four unpublished novels, played in a band (insert devil horns hand salute here), and collaborated on a screenplay based on one of his books.
He got his first break writing for Mondo 2000, the early "cyberculture" magazine. That led to a job with SonicNet, an early online music site, in 1994. Those were fun and heady times, pre-Web, pre-boom.
When magazines needed someone to chronicle this new digital world, he started freelancing. David discovered that he preferred nonfiction to fiction. Pretty soon, he was writing full-time about all kinds of people: gamers, carnie kids, rock stars, hackers, car designers, federal agents, monster truck racers, dot com moguls, card sharks, and George Hamilton.