Rob Sheffield

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Rob Sheffield
Occupation	Writer, editor, columnist

Rob Sheffield (born February 2, 1966) is an American music journalist and author. He is currently a staff writer at Blender; prior to that, he was a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, where (in addition to writing music reviews and profile stories) he wrote the "Pop Life" column. His work has also been featured in The Village Voice. A native of Boston, Sheffield attended Yale and the University of Virginia, and is six foot five.

His first book, Love is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time (an excerpt of which was featured in the January 2007 issue of GQ), was released by Random House in January 2007. It received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Library Journal.

Most of Love is a Mix Tape takes place in Charlottesville, Virginia, where Sheffield met and married his late wife Renée Crist, a fellow DJ at radio station WTJU, and continues in New York City after Crist's death in 1997. The couple had no children.

Sheffield remarried in 2006 and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

[edit] External links

• Barnes, Lindsay. "Love Is a Mix Tape: Rolling Stone writer on love and loss in Charlottesville." The Hook. January 25, 2007. Retrieved February 1, 2007