Sam Lansky

{{short description|American journalist, author and editor (born 1988)}}

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Sam Lansky (born September 23, 1988)Connelly, Sherryl (January 14, 2016), [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/sam-lansky-reveals-wild-days-memoir-gilded-razor-article-1.2483669 "Time magazine culture editor Sam Lansky reveals his wild days in new memoir 'The Gilded Razor']". NEW YORK DAILY NEWS. Retrieved April 6, 2017. is an American journalist, author and screenwriter.

Early life

After his parents divorced, he lived with his father in Manhattan and attended the Dwight School. He began using drugs when he was in his early teens. Lansky was forcibly entered into a wilderness rehabilitation in Utah at 17[http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Gilded-Razor/Sam-Lansky/9781476776156/ "The Gilded Razor A Memoir"] Retrieved on January 10, 2018 and became sober when he was 19.{{Cite news|url=http://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/sam-lansky-the-gilded-razor|title=Sam Lansky - Interview Magazine|date=January 27, 2016|work=Interview Magazine|access-date=December 26, 2017|language=en-US}}

Career

He enrolled in The New School with a degree in creative writing. After graduating, he worked as a freelance music critic; he contributed to New York magazine, The Atlantic, Esquire, and Out, among others. Lansky joined the editorial staff of Time in 2014 and became their West Coast editor in 2018. He interviewed and profiled Taylor Swift for Time after she was picked as the Person of the Year in 2023.{{Cite magazine |date=2023-12-06 |title=Taylor Swift Is TIME's 2023 Person of the Year |url=https://time.com/6342806/person-of-the-year-2023-taylor-swift/ |access-date=2023-12-06 |magazine=TIME |language=en}}

In 2016, he released his first book The Gilded Razor, a memoir of his troubled teenage years.{{cite news |title=Chatting With Sam Lansky About His Already-Triumphant 2016|url=http://www.newnownext.com/a-chat-with-sam-lansky-about-his-already-triumphant-2016|access-date=January 10, 2018 }} Lansky's first novel, Broken People, was published by Hanover Square Press in 2020.{{cite web|url= https://bookmarks.reviews/reviews/broken-people-original/|title = Broken People|website = Book Marks|publisher = Literary Hub|access-date = June 9, 2020}} In 2023, it was reported that he was the ghostwriter of Britney Spears' memoir, The Woman in Me.{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/sam-lansky-britney-spears-ghostwriter-b2433069.html|title=Sam Lansky: the ghostwriter who helped bring Britney's troubled story to the page|website=The Independent|date=October 23, 2023|access-date=November 11, 2023}}

In 2024, Lansky was announced as the co-writer of the upcoming I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025) reboot.{{Cite web |last=Gajewski |first=Ryan |date=2024-05-16 |title='I Know What You Did Last Summer' Reboot Lands Summer 2025 Release |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/i-know-what-you-did-last-summer-reboot-release-1235901746/ |access-date=2025-03-03 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}}

Personal life

{{As of|2018}}, Lansky lives in Los Angeles.{{cite news|url = https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/time-editor-sam-lansky-scores-publishing-deal-debut-novel-broken-people-1150656|title = Time West Coast Editor Sam Lansky Scores Publishing Deal for Debut Novel (Exclusive)|work = The Hollywood Reporter|date = October 9, 2018|access-date = June 9, 2020|last = Gardner|first = Chris}}

Bibliography

The Gilded Razor (Gallery Books, 2016)
Broken People (Hanover Square Press, 2020)
The Woman in Me - Britney Spears (Gallery Books, 2023)

Filmography

I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025)

References

=Works cited=

{{cite book | last =Lansky | first =Sam | title =The Gilded Razor: A Memoir | publisher =Gallery Books | date =January 12, 2016 | isbn =9781476776149 }}

Category:1988 births

Category:21st-century American male writers

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