Aidan Levy

Aidan Levy is the author of Dirty Blvd.: The Life and Music of Lou Reed and editor of Patti Smith on Patti Smith: Interviews and Encounters. A former Leon Levy Center for Biography Fellow, his writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Village Voice, JazzTimes, the Nation, and other publications. He holds a doctorate in English and comparative literature from Columbia University, where he has served as coconvener of the African American Studies Colloquium and worked with the Center for Jazz Studies. For ten years, he was the baritone saxophonist in the Stan Rubin Orchestra.