Joseph Menn

Joseph Menn is author of the best-selling inside history "All the Rave: The Rise and Fall of Shawn Fanning's Napster," named one the best three books of the year by Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc. The (Toronto) Globe & Mail called it "a compelling story of technology, politics and culture; Newsweek called it "startling…the best seat yet to the online music revolution." A longtime technology correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, Menn was a finalist for a 2003 Gerald Loeb Award, the most prestigious in business journalism, and received a "Best in Business" award from the Society of American Business Editors & Writers. He is co-author of The People vs. Big Tobacco: How the States Took on the Cigarette Giants (1998) and previously worked for Bloomberg News and The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer. He lives in San Francisco.