Sam Anderson is an American author, who is a staff writer at ''

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'' and the author of ''Boom Town,'' a book about Oklahoma City. In 2017, he won a National Magazine Award for his article about

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. Prior to this, he was a book critic for the magazine ''New York'' . In 2007 he received the Balakian Award for Excellence in Criticism from the National Book Critics Circle. Anderson holds a master's degree from

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. In his free time, Anderson likes to read voraciously and has taken up a hobby of drawing. He often shares his drawings on his instagram page.

Works

*''Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, its Chaotic Founding... its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis'', Crown, 2018,

References

External links

"National Book Critics Circle Awards announced,"
Chicago Sun-Times, March 7, 2008 {{DEFAULTSORT:Anderson, Sam Living people American literary critics Critics employed by The New York Times Year of birth missing (living people)