The Times' personal technology columnist, Pogue is a demigod to gadget geeks everywhere and the closest thing the Gray Lady has to an internet celebrity.

Born in Ohio, Pogue graduated from Yale summa cum laude with a degree in, of all things, music. He spent his early years in New York working as a conductor on Broadway and in the office of Musical Theatre International before instigating a career change and writing for Macworld Magazine in the late ‘90s. His back-page column "The Desktop Critic" and his success writing Macs for Dummies led him to the New York Times, where he writes his "State of the Art" column every Thursday and his "From the Desk of David Pogue," an email-based opinion column where he launches many of his consumer advocacy initiatives. Despite minor controversies over his overwhelming allegiance to Apple, Pogue has become one of the most influential tech writers in the country and has even carved a minor television career for himself, appearing on CNBC's Power Lunch, hosting the Discovery Channel's mini-series It's All Geek To Me, and popping up on PBS's Nova and CBS's Sunday Morning.
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