Katie Hafner is a journalist

Journalist

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 who writes books and articles about technology

Technology

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 and society. She was a technology reporter at The New York Times

The New York Times

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and was a contributing editor for Newsweek

Newsweek

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. She has worked at Business Week, and has written for Esquire

Esquire (magazine)

Esquire is a men's magazine, published in the U.S. by the Hearst Corporation. Founded in 1932, it flourished during the Great Depression under the guidance of founder and editor Arnold Gingrich.-History:...

, Wired, The New Republic

The New Republic

The magazine has also published two articles concerning income inequality, largely criticizing conservative economists for their attempts to deny the existence or negative effect increasing income inequality is having on the United States...

and The New York Times Magazine

The New York Times Magazine

The New York Times Magazine is a Sunday magazine supplement included with the Sunday edition of The New York Times. It is host to feature articles longer than those typically in the newspaper and has attracted many notable contributors...

.

Biography

She is interviewed in the John Korty documentary, "Miracle in a Box", about the rebuilding of a Steinway piano. Hafner lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Books

• Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier (with John Markoff
  John Markoff
  John Markoff is a journalist best known for his work at The New York Times, and a book and series of articles about the 1990s pursuit and capture of hacker Kevin Mitnick.- Biography :...
  
  ) (Simon & Schuster, 1991) ISBN 0-684-81862-0
• The House at the Bridge: A Story of Modern Germany (Scribner, 1995) ISBN 0-684-19400-7
• Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet (with Matthew Lyon) (Simon & Schuster, 1996) ISBN 0-684-83267-4
• The WELL: A Story of Love, Death and Real Life in the Seminal Online Community:(2001) Carroll & Graf Publishers ISBN 0-7867-0846-8
• [A Romance on Three Legs: Glenn Gould's Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Piano]http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1596915242/httpwwwkatieh-20 : (June 2008 BloomsburyUSA) ISBN 0-7710-3754-6

External links

• Recent and archival news by Katie Hafner of The New York Times.
• "Lifting Corporate Fingerprints From the Editing of Wikipedia," by Katie Hafner, The New York Times, August 19, 2007
• http://www.thehouseatthebridge.com/
• Wired
  Wired (magazine)
  Wired is a full-color monthly American magazine and on-line periodical, published since January 1993, that reports on how new and developing technology affects culture, the economy, and politics...
  
  , December 1994 - The Creators
• Wired, May 1997 - The Epic Saga of The Well
• Wired, June 2001 - Book review of The Well
• http://www.katiehafner.com/