Katie Hafner

Katie Hafner ( born 1957 ) is an American journalist. Hafner has been writing for more than 25 years about technology, computer and social issues. In 1998 she went to the New York Times and was one of the first journalists to the famous Circuits section. She has also worked for Newsweek, Business Week, Esquire, Wired, The New Republic and the New York Times Magazine. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

In addition to her work as a journalist Katie Hafner has written four books on topics such as the Villa Schoningen the Glienicker bridge between Berlin and Potsdam and computer hackers. With her ​​latest book she entered the musical stage and wrote about Glenn Gould and his obsessive quest for the perfect piano. " A Romance on Three Legs: Glenn Gould's Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Piano " was released in March 2009 in German translation.

Publications

• Katie Hafner, John Markoff: Cyberpunk. The world of a hacker. Econ -Verlag, Dusseldorf 1993, ISBN 3-612-26035-9.
• Katie Hafner, John Markoff: Kevin Mitnick. The hacker. How it all began. ADMOS Media GmbH Hamm 1998, ISBN 978-3-612-26216-5.
• Katie Hafner, Matthew Lyon: ARPA KADABRA or The history of the Internet. 351 pages, dpunkt -Verlag, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-932588-59-2
• Katie Hafner, The Well: The Epic History of the First Online Community. Carroll & Graf Publishers, New York 2001, ISBN 978-0-7867-0846-8 ( no German translation ).
• Katie Hafner: The house at the bridge. The villa Schoningen in Potsdam and its inhabitants. Maerkischer Verlag, Wilhelmshorst 2004, ISBN 3-931329-36-4, ( original Scribner, 1995).
• Katie Hafner: romance with a three-legged chair: Glenn Gould's obsessive quest for the perfect piano. Schott, Mainz 2009, ISBN 978-3-7957-0657-9.