Damon Young author biography, plus links to books by Damon Young.

Damon Young

Pittsburgh writer Damon Young's debut memoir, What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays (Ecco), won the Thurber Prize for American Humor. Damon is also a founder of the culture blog Very Smart Brothas and was a contributing columnist for The Washington Post Magazine, a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, a columnist for GQ, and the creator and host of the Crooked Media podcast Stuck with Damon Young. Currently, he is the inaugural writer-in-residence at the University of Pittsburgh's David C. Frederick Honors College.

This biography was last updated on 06/03/2025.

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