Chuck Klosterman

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Chuck Klosterman
Born:	5 June 1972 Wilkin County, Minnesota
Occupation:	Author, Columnist
Genres:	Rock Music, Pop Culture

Charles John "Chuck" Klosterman (born June 5, 1972, in Wilkin County, Minnesota) is an American pop-culture journalist, critic, humorist, and essayist. He was raised on a farm near Wyndmere, North Dakota and graduated from the University of North Dakota in 1994. After college he was a journalist in Fargo and later an arts critic for the Akron Beacon Journal in Akron, Ohio, before moving to New York City in 2002.

Klosterman was a senior writer for SPIN Magazine and had a column titled "My Back Pages," formerly "Rant and Roll" and "### Words from Chuck Klosterman." In early March 2006, it was reported that Klosterman left or was fired after the magazine was sold and editor-in-chief Sia Michel was replaced, along with many other staffers. He still regularly contributes to Esquire (where he is a featured columnist) and has written for GQ, The New York Times Magazine, The Believer, and The Washington Post.

Klosterman participated in an e-mail exchange on ESPN's Page2 with writer Bill Simmons in August 2004. In September 2005, Simmons interviewed him in his "Curious Guy" segment. Though initially recognized for his rock writing, Klosterman has written extensively about sports and began contributing articles to Page2 on November 8, 2005; the ESPN site featured his week-long blog from the Super Bowl in February 2006.