Frederick Kaufman

FREDERICK KAUFMAN is a contributing editor at Harper’s Magazine and a Professor of English and Journalism at the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism. His recent books include The Money Plot: A History of Currency’s Power to Enchant, Control, and Manipulate, Bet the Farm: How Food Stopped Being Food and A Short History of the American Stomach.

Kaufman holds a B.A. from Yale and a Ph.D. in English from the CUNY Graduate Center. His work has appeared in Foreign Policy, Wired, the New Yorker, Gourmet, Scientific American and the New York Times Magazine.

When he’s not writing, Kaufman has spoken on food justice at the General Assembly of the United Nations and appeared on MSNBC, Fox Business News, Bloomberg and the BBC World Service. That engagement with food systems and global economics runs throughout his books.

Frederick lives in New York.

Frederick Kaufman’s books are published by Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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