About Saul

Saul Austerlitz is a freelance writer whose work has been published in theNew York Times, New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Rolling Stone, the Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Slate, and The New Republic, among others.

He is an adjunct professor of writing and comedy history at New York University, as well as the author of Money for Nothing: A History of the Music Video from the Beatles to the White Stripes (Continuum, 2007), Another Fine Mess: A History of American Film Comedy (Chicago Review Press, 2010), Sitcom: A History in 24 Episodes from I Love Lucy to Community (Chicago Review Press, 2014), Just a Shot Away: Peace, Love, and Tragedy with the Rolling Stones at Altamont (Thomas Dunne Books, 2018), and Generation Friends: An Inside Look at the Show That Defined a Television Era (Dutton, 2019). Booklist named Another Fine Mess one of the ten best arts books of 2010, and Just a Shot Away received rave reviews, including from the New York Times Book Review, which called it “the most blisteringly impassioned music book of the season.” Generation Friends was named one of the ten best comedy books of 2019 by New York magazine.

Austerlitz grew up in Los Angeles and is a graduate of Yale University (B.A. in film studies, 2001) and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts (M.A. in cinema studies, 2003). He lives with his wife and children in Brooklyn.