C.J. Farley
C.J. Farley has worked as a senior editor for the Wall Street Journal and Time magazine, and is the author of such novels as “Game World,” “Kingston by Starlight,” and “My Favorite War.” Farley served as consulting producer on the Peabody-winning HBO documentary “Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown” and wrote the best-selling biographies “Before the Legend: The Rise of Bob Marley” and “Aaliyah: More Than a Woman,” the latter of which was adapted into a hit Lifetime movie. His latest novel is “Around Harvard Square,” a satiric look at race, sex, class and admissions in the Ivy League which Walter Isaacson called “sharp and imaginative,” Marlon James called “ferociously funny” and Andy Borowitz called “a delight.” Farley, who was born in Kingston, Jamaica, is a graduate of Harvard and a former editor of the Harvard Lampoon. Farley is currently an executive editor at Audible.