Mark Rozzo

Mark Rozzo is a former deputy editor at Vanity Fair and the author of the best-selling cultural history Everybody Thought We Were Crazy: Dennis Hopper, Brooke Hayward, and 1960s Los Angeles (Ecco, 2022), cited by the Los Angeles Times as one of the 50 Best Hollywood Books of All Time. His reporting, essays, and reviews—on art, design, architecture, literary culture, popular music, and food—have appeared in The New Yorker (where he began his career), The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Oxford American, The Washington Post, Esquire, Vogue, Architectural Digest, Town & Country, Gourmet, Bon Appetit, and Air Mail, among other publications.

As a musician and songwriter, Mark has released albums, toured internationally, and created music for television, commercials, and films, including Sidney Lumet’s Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (2007). One of his bands, Bambi Kino, was the subject of a 2010 Arte network documentary; he has also collaborated with the band America. More recently, he created the soundtracks for the Audible.com comedy productions Stinker Lets Loose! (starring Jon Hamm) and Passable in Pink (starring Bob Odenkirk). He has directed video features for Vanity Fair and Town & Country and has written for the Bravo and MTV networks. He is currently working on a book with the pioneering graffiti artist and foundational hip-hop figure Fab 5 Freddy (Fred Brathwaite).

Mark graduated from Swarthmore College and teaches nonfiction at Columbia University, where he was awarded a National Arts Journalism fellowship. He lives in New York City with his family.