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| Born | March 9, 1963 Shaker Heights, Ohio |
| Website | http://www.davidpogue.com/ |
David Pogue is a New York Times personal technology columnist, Emmy-winning tech correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning, and tech guest for NPR's Morning Edition. He has written or co-written seven books in the "...for Dummies" series (including Macintosh computers, magic, opera, and classical music). In 1999, he launched his own series of computer books called the Missing Manual series, which now includes over 60 titles covering Macintosh, Windows, and popular application programs.
Pogue graduated from Yale University in 1985, with Distinction in Music. He spent ten years working in New York as a Broadway musical conductor, arranger, and keyboard player.
In 2007, the Discovery HD and Science channels aired his six-episode series, It's All Geek to Me, a how-to show about consumer technology. He is the winner of a Business Emmy (2004), an Online News Association award for online commentary (2006), and two Maggie awards for his magazine writing (1996, 1998).
He is married to Jennifer Pogue, MD and has three children.
New York Times
Each week, he produces a short online video for the New York Times website, nytimes.com, writes a review column for the paper, and writes a tech-related opinion column that is sent to readers by email. He also maintains a blog at nytimes.com called Pogue's Posts.
Bibliography
Non-fiction
- Classical Music for Dummies
- Crossing Platforms: A Macintosh/Windows Phrasebook (with Adam C. Engst)
- The Flat-Screen iMac for Dummies
- GarageBand 2: the Missing Manual
- GarageBand: the Missing Manual
- The Great Macintosh Easter Egg Hunt
- Hard Drive (novel)
- The iBook for Dummies
- iLife '04: The Missing Manual
- iLife '05: The Missing Manual
- The iMac for Dummies
- iMovie: The Missing Manual
- iMovie 2: The Missing Manual
- iMovie 3 & iDVD: The Missing Manual
- iMovie 4 & iDVD: The Missing Manual
- iMovie HD & iDVD 5: The Missing Manual
- iMovie 6 & iDVD: The Missing Manual
- iPhoto: The Missing Manual
- iPhoto 2: The Missing Manual
- iPhoto 4: The Missing Manual
- iPhoto 5: The Missing Manual
- iPhoto 6: The Missing Manual
- Mac OS 9: The Missing Manual
- Mac OS X: The Missing Manual
- Mac OS X Hints (with Rob Griffiths)
- Mac OS X Tiger in a Nutshell
- Macs for Dummies
- Macs for Teachers
- Macworld Mac & Power Mac Secrets (with Joseph Schorr)
- Magic for Dummies
- The Microsloth Joke Book: A Satire (editor)
- More Macs for Dummies
- Opera for Dummies (with Scott Speck)
- PalmPilot: The Ultimate Guide
- Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual (with Adam Goldstein)
- Tales from the Tech Line: Hilarious Strange-But-True Stories from the Computer Industry's Technical-Support Hotlines (editor)
- The Weird Wide Web (with Erfert Fenton)
- Windows Me: The Missing Manual
- Windows Vista: The Missing Manual
- Windows Vista for Starters: The Missing Manual
- Windows XP Home Edition: The Missing Manual
- Windows XP Pro: The Missing Manual
Fiction
- Hard Drive (1993) a techno-thriller
Trademarks
Pogue has trademarked the following:
- "the Missing Manual"
- "the book that should have been in the box"
- the Missing Manual logo
to denote his series of books, some of which are written by other authors and published by Pogue Press.
References
- David Pogue. "David Pogue's Bio". Retrieved 2007-06-28.
External links
- Official website
- David Pogue's 22 min Talk at TED Conference (2006) Monterey, CA
- David Pogue at IMDb