The Hollywood Salon with Writer Eric Konigsberg

ERIC KONIGSBERG is from OMAHA, NE & is a former reporter for The New York Times and a longtime contributor to many magazines, including The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, The Atlantic, New York, Tin House, GQ, Vogue, and Rolling Stone.

Eric is the author of the critically acclaimed book BLOOD RELATION, about his uncle, the Mafia hit man Harold (Kayo) Konigsberg. His stories in The New Yorker have been finalists for the National Magazine Award (for feature writing) and the Livingston Award for Young Journalists (for national reporting).

At the Times, he was part of a team whose coverage of the Bernard Madoff scandal was nominated (in the category for “breaking news”) for the Gerald Loeb Awards for Business Reporting. His work has been anthologized or cited in several collections, including the Best American Essays and Best American Magazine Writing series.

He is currently adapting BLOOD RELATION for television, and his 2018 article in Vanity Fair, THE CHAIRMEN, is being developed as a feature film, which Alexander Payne will direct. He is at work on a novel.