Dan Baum

About

Dan Baum is the author of Gun Guys: A Road Trip (Knopf, 2013); Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans (Spiegel & Grau, 2009); Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure (Little, Brown 1996); and Citizen Coors: An American Dynasty (Morrow/HarperCollins, 2000). Once a staff writer for the New Yorker, his work can be found in Rolling Stone, Playboy, the New York Times Magazine and elsewhere.