Bri­an Abrams is the author of OBA­MA: An Oral His­to­ry as well as the three best­selling Kin­dle Sin­gles: And NOW … An Oral His­to­ry of Late Night with David Let­ter­man, 1982 – 1993; Gawk­er: An Oral His­to­ry; and Die Hard: An Oral His­to­ry. A found­ing edi­tor of the news and pol­i­tics site Death and Tax­es Mag­a­zine, Abrams has writ­ten for the Wash­ing­ton Post Mag­a­zine, Time, Film Drunk, and The Low­brow Read­er. He lives in New York City.