Dan Lyons

Current

• Senior editor at Forbes

Past

• Freelancer at DJL Industries
• Senior writer at PC Week
• Copy editor at Boston Herald

• Copy editor, reporter at Lawrence (Mass.) Eagle-Tribune

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Education

• University of Michigan
• Bradford College
• Brooks School

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Connections

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Industry

Writing and Editing

Dan Lyons’s Experience

• Senior editor

  Forbes

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Writing and Editing industry)

  September 1998 — Present (9 years 11 months)

  I have two jobs at Forbes. On the print side, I write a column called "Digital Tools." Sometimes I review cool new gadgets and sometimes I write analysis or market trend articles. On the dotcom side of Forbes, I write a blog called The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, under the persona of a character called Fake Steve. This began as a side project but now is sponsored by Forbes. It's a mix of comedy and fiction with some tech industry analysis thrown in.

• Freelancer

  DJL Industries

  (Writing and Editing industry)

  September 1990 — September 1998 (8 years 1 month)

  In 1990 I quit PC Week and went to grad school at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. I was in the MFA program, studying literature and going to creative writing workshops. I wrote my first book, a collection of inter-connected short stories called "The Last Good Man," while I was in grad school. After graduation I stayed in Ann Arbor and taught at University of Michigan while writing my next book, a novel called "Dog Days," which was published by Simon and Schuster in 1997. Meanwhile I was working as a freelance writer for trade magazines at IDG and CMP but also doing a weekly column for the Detroit Free Press and bigger articles for GQ and the New York Times Magazine. At some point I started also freelancing for the Forbes.com site. That led me to a staff position on the print side at Forbes.

• Senior writer

  PC Week

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Writing and Editing industry)

  1987 — 1990 (3 years)

  The PC industry was booming in the late 1980s, and PC week was a really great place to work.

• Copy editor

  Boston Herald

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Writing and Editing industry)

  1986 — 1987 (1 year)

• Copy editor, reporter

  Lawrence (Mass.) Eagle-Tribune

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Writing and Editing industry)

  1983 — 1986 (3 years)

Additional Information

Dan Lyons’s Interests:

Skiing, rowing, running, chasing my two-year-old twins around the house.

Dan Lyons’s Honors:

Business Journalist of the Year, finalist, 2005.
Gerald Loeb Award, business journalism, finalist, 2003.
Best of the Young American Novelists, Granta, 1994.
National Endowment for the Arts Literary Fellowship, 1994.
Associated Writing Programs Award in Short Fiction, 1993.
Playboy College Fiction Prize, 1993.

Dan Lyons’s Contact Settings

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