Mark Rozzo is the author of the cultural history Everybody Thought We Were Crazy: Dennis Hopper, Brooke Hayward, and 1960s Los Angeles (Ecco, 2022), a national best-seller. He is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair (where he previously served as deputy editor), and has also been a contributor at The New Yorker and a columnist at The Los Angeles Times Book Review. His essays, criticism, and profiles have appeared in The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Oxford American, The Washington Post, Esquire, Vogue, Gourmet, Town & Country, Architectural Digest, BookForum, and Air Mail. As a musician, he has released albums with various bands and has created music for TV and films, including Sidney Lumet’s Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, and soundtracks for Audible.com. He received a BA in English Literature from Swarthmore College and was a 2005 National Arts Journalism fellow at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.






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Adjunct Assistant Professor, Undergraduate Creative Writing