Rob Sheffield is an American music journalist and author. He is currently a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, writing music reviews and essays on pop culture. Prior to that, he was a contributing editor at Blender before the print version of the magazine folded in 2009, and at Spin. A native of Boston, Sheffield attended Yale and the University of Virginia. His first book, Love is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time, 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 Ren�e 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. Sheffield's second book, released in July 2010, is called Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut. 

February 2nd, 1966 in (Age 58)