Sam Anderson is an American author, who is a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine[1] and the author of Boom Town, a book about Oklahoma City.[2] In 2017, he won a National Magazine Award for his article about
Michelangelo's David.[3] Prior to this, he was a book critic for the magazine
New York .[4] In 2007 he received the Balakian Award for Excellence in Criticism from the
National Book Critics Circle.[5]
In his free time, Anderson likes to read voraciously and has taken up a hobby of drawing. He often shares his drawings on his instagram page.[7]
Works
Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, its Chaotic Founding... its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis, Crown, 2018,
ISBN978-0804137317