Tad Friend
Theodore Porter "Tad" Friend is a staff writer for The New Yorker who writes the magazine's "Letter from California".Life
Born in Buffalo, New York, Friend was raised there and in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. He was educated at The Shipley School and Harvard University.
Friend was a contributing editor at various publications, including Esquire, prior to becoming a staff writer at The New Yorker in 1998. His work there includes the magazine's "Letter from California". In 2001, he published "Lost in Mongolia: Travels in Hollywood and Other Foreign Lands", a collection of his articles. His memoir, Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor, was published in 2009.
Friend is married to food writer Amanda Hesser, with whom he has twin children. He lives in Brooklyn Heights.Books
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