David Pogue

David Pogue: Profile

With over 3 million books in print, David is one of the world's bestselling how-to authors. He wrote or co-wrote seven books in the for Dummies series (including Macs, Magic, Opera, and Classical Music); in 1999, he launched his own series of complete, funny computer books called the Missing Manual series, which now includes 120 titles.

He began writing for Macworld magazine in 1988. His triple-award-winning column, "The Desktop Critic," appeared on the back page until November 2000, when Pogue became the personal-technology columnist for the New York Times. (His Times column, "State of the Art," appears every Thursday on the front page of the Business section.) Soon thereafter, he began writing his daily Times blog, "Pogue's Posts," authoring a weekly e-mail Times newsletter, "From the Desk of David Pogue," and shooting his double-award-winning, very silly Times Web videos. Pogue appears frequently on radio and TV. For several years, he was a regular technology guest on Martha Stewart's pre-jail TV show and on NPR's "Morning Edition"; today, he appears weekly on CNBC's Power Lunch, monthly on CNBC's On the Money, and about six times a year on CBS News Sunday Morning. In 2004, his Sunday Morning segments on Google and the spam problem won a 2004 Business Emmy.

David graduated summa cum laude from Yale in 1985, with distinction in Music, and he spent ten years conducting and arranging Broadway musicals in New York. In addition to his Emmy, he won a Loeb award for journalism, and an honorary doctorate in music. He's been profiled on 48 Hours and 60 Minutes.