The Missing Credits

About the Author

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J.D. Biersdorfer has been writing the Q&A column for the Circuits section of The New York Times since 1998. She has covered everything from 17th-century Indian art to the world of female hackers for the newspaper, and has reviewed dozens of books for The New York Times Book Review. She has penned articles for the AIGA Journal of Graphic Design and Rolling Stone, and has contributed essays about the collision of art and technology to several graphic-design books published by Allworth Press. She studied Theater & Drama at Indiana University and now lives in New York City, where she plays the banjo, enjoys biographies of Winston Churchill, and watches too much CNN Headline News. Email:

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