Erik Lundegaard grew up in Minneapolis, Minn., taught English in Taipei, Taiwan for two years, and currently lives in Seattle’s First Hill neighborhood. He writes regularly for MSNBC.com and Huffington Post and has written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Seattle Times, The Christian Science Monitor, Slate, Film Quarterly, and The Believer. He’s also editor of seven Super Lawyers publications around the country, including New York and Washington, D.C.
His favorite movies, the ones he keeps returning to, are (in chronological order):
- Angels with Dirty Faces
- Casablanca
- The Third Man
- Seven Samurai
- The Godfather
- Chinatown
- All the President’s Men
- Annie Hall
- The Thin Red Line
- The Insider
His favorite authors, the ones he keeps returning to, are: Norman Mailer, Milan Kundera, Gore Vidal, E.L. Doctorow, John Irving, Ernest Hemingway, and Leo Tolstoy.
He bikes to work. He’s trying to learn French. He can be reached at: