Marty Beckerman

Marty Beckerman is an American journalist, humorist, and author. He is a native of Anchorage, Alaska, and started his career with The Anchorage Daily News between 1998 and 2000, when he was still a junior and sophomore at Steller Secondary School. He has since written for The New York Times,Wired,Playboy, Salon,Maxim, the Daily Beast,Discover, the Atlantic, and other publications. He is a former editor at Esquire.

Beckerman wrote his first book at age 16. He is known for the professional attention he received from the literary community at a relatively young age. More recently, he is known for his bestselling book The Heming Way: How to Unleash the Booze-Inhaling, Animal-Slaughtering, War-Glorifying, Hairy-Chested, Retro-Sexual Legend Within... Just Like Papa!, a parody of Ernest Hemingway.

In 2000, Beckerman compiled many of his newspaper columns published by the Anchorage Daily News into Death to All Cheerleaders: One Adolescent Journalist's Cheerful Diatribe Against Teenage Plasticity. Although published independently, it gained national attention. When the book was published, he was still a sophomore in high school. In spite of his youth, his work was compared to that of Hunter S. Thompson, Lenny Bruce, and Pulitzer-prize winning author Dave Barry.

Following the publication of Death to Cheerleaders, Beckerman gained a patron in John Strausbaugh, contributor and editor of the New York Press. An October 5, 2000 review of the book by the Press stated, "Marty is a very precocious smart-ass with a mean streak of cynicism."

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